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Moylan

At the 2020 census, 2,567 Americans bore the surname Moylan — 11,682nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 116,000.

By the numbers

People
2,567
Rank
11,682nd
How common
1 in 116,000
Per 100,000
0.86

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoileáin (“descendant of Maoileán”), a diminutive of maol (“bald”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Surnames like Moylan

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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.