Shaughnessy

Shaughnessy is the 5,592nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,002 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,002
Rank: 5,592nd
How common: 1 in 49,800
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Seachnasaigh.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Shaughnessy

Meghann Shaughnessy (born 1979)American tennis player
Charles Shaughnessy (born 1955)English actor
Joe Shaughnessy (born 1992)Irish association football player
Mickey Shaughnessy (1920–1985)American actor
Ed Shaughnessy (1929–2013)American jazz drummer

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

Surnames like Shaughnessy

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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.