Mulvey

At the 2020 census, 3,749 Americans bore the surname Mulvey — 8,453rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 79,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,749
Rank: 8,453rd
How common: 1 in 79,700
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoilmhiadhaigh (“descendant of Maoilmhiadhach”), a personal name composed of the elements maol (“servant, devotee”) + miadhach (“honorable”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Mulvey

Laura Mulvey (born 1941)British feminist film theorist
Callan Mulvey (born 1975)New Zealand-born Australian actor
Sinéad Mulvey (born 1988)Irish singer
William Mulvey (born 1949)American Catholic bishop

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

Surnames like Mulvey

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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.