Milligan

At the 2020 census, 21,548 Americans bore the surname Milligan — 1,619th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,900.

By the numbers

People: 21,548
Rank: 1,619th
How common: 1 in 13,900
Per 100,000: 7.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó Maolagáin (“descendant of Maolagán”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.9%
Black, not Hispanic 11.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Milligan

Mark Milligan (born 1985)Australian association football player
Spike Milligan (1918–2002)British actor
Dustin Milligan (born 1985)Canadian actor
Andy Milligan (1929–1991)Playwright, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor, film editor, producer, and director
Peter Milligan (born 1961)British writer

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

Surnames like Milligan

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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.