Mullen

At the 2020 census, 35,464 Americans bore the surname Mullen — 971st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,428.

By the numbers

People: 35,464
Rank: 971st
How common: 1 in 8,428
Per 100,000: 11.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.2%
Black, not Hispanic 6.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Mullen

Larry Mullen Jr. (born 1961)Irish drummer, member of the rock group U2
Rodney Mullen (born 1966)American professional skateboarder
Michael Mullen (born 1946)U.S. Navy admiral and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jimmy Mullen (1923–1987)English footballer
Ryan Mullen (born 1994)Irish road cyclist
Joe Mullen (born 1957)American ice hockey player

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

Surnames like Mullen

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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.