Maguire

15,991 people in the United States were counted with the surname Maguire in the 2020 census, making it the 2,216th most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,700.

By the numbers

People: 15,991
Rank: 2,216th
How common: 1 in 18,700
Per 100,000: 5.4

Where the name comes from

Anglicized from Irish Mag Uidhir.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Maguire described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Maguire

Mairead Maguire (born 1944)peace activist
Stephen Maguire (born 1981)Scottish snooker player
Sean Maguire (born 1976)British actor and singer
Clare Maguire (born 1987)British singer-songwriter
Martie Maguire (born 1969)American musician
Gregory Maguire (born 1954)novelist
Eleanor A. Maguire (1970–2025)Irish neuropsychologist
Emily Maguire (born 1987)Scottish field hockey player

People named Maguire with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Maguire

Also a first name

Maguire has been given to 695 American babies as a first name since 1997, peaking in 2000. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.