Sharkey

At the 2020 census, 8,059 Americans bore the surname Sharkey — 4,256th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 37,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,059
Rank: 4,256th
How common: 1 in 37,100
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Searcaigh (“descendant of Searcach”), from searcach (“beloved”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.5%
Black, not Hispanic 8.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Sharkey

Ray Sharkey (1952–1993)American stage, film and television actor
Jack Sharkey (1902–1994)American boxer
Feargal Sharkey (born 1958)Northern Irish singer, leader of The Undertones

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

Surnames like Sharkey

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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.