Mahoney

At the 2020 census, 38,677 Americans bore the surname Mahoney — 884th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,728.

By the numbers

People: 38,677
Rank: 884th
How common: 1 in 7,728
Per 100,000: 12.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Mathghamhna (“descendant of Mathghamhain”), a personal name composed of the elements math (“bear”) and gamhain (“calf”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.2%
Black, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Mahoney

John Mahoney (1940–2018)American actor
Jock Mahoney (1919–1989)American actor and stuntman
Balls Mahoney (1972–2016)American professional wrestler

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

Surnames like Mahoney

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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.