Sheehan

At the 2020 census, 25,895 Americans bore the surname Sheehan — 1,331st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,500.

By the numbers

People: 25,895
Rank: 1,331st
How common: 1 in 11,500
Per 100,000: 8.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Síodhacháin (“descendant of Síodhachán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of síodhach (“peaceful”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Sheehan

Robert Sheehan (born 1988)Irish actor
Cindy Sheehan (born 1957)American antiwar activist
Billy Sheehan (born 1953)American bassist
Patty Sheehan (born 1956)professional golfer
Neil Sheehan (1936–2021)American writer, historian, soldier
Josh Sheehan (born 1995)Welsh footballer
Mark Sheehan (1976–2023)Irish musician
Michael Jarboe Sheehan (1939–2023)Catholic archbishop

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

Surnames like Sheehan

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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.