Mulligan

At the 2020 census, 14,123 Americans bore the surname Mulligan — 2,495th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,200.

By the numbers

People: 14,123
Rank: 2,495th
How common: 1 in 21,200
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maolagáin, from maolagán (“person with cropped hair”), from maol (“bald”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Mulligan

Carey Mulligan (born 1985)English actress
Robert Mulligan (1925–2008)American director
Gerry Mulligan (1927–1996)American jazz musician and composer
Richard Mulligan (1932–2000)American actor
Dave Mulligan (born 1982)New Zealand footballer
Blackjack Mulligan (1942–2016)American professional wrestler and American football player

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

Surnames like Mulligan

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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.