Sheridan

Sheridan is the 1,627th most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,412 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,000.

By the numbers

People: 21,412
Rank: 1,627th
How common: 1 in 14,000
Per 100,000: 7.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

As a surname, from Irish Ó Sirideáin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Sheridan

Tye Sheridan (born 1996)American actor
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)Irish-British politician, playwright and writer
Philip Sheridan (1831–1888)United States Army general
Nicollette Sheridan (born 1963)English-born American actress
Ann Sheridan (1915–1967)American actress
Jim Sheridan (born 1949)Irish playwright and filmmaker
Liz Sheridan (1929–2022)American actress
Taylor Sheridan (born 1970)American screenwriter and director

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

Surnames like Sheridan

Also a first name

Sheridan has been given to 8,372 American babies as a first name since 1891, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.