Walsh

At the 2020 census, 101,867 Americans bore the surname Walsh — 302nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,934.

By the numbers

People: 101,867
Rank: 302nd
How common: 1 in 2,934
Per 100,000: 34.1

Where the name comes from

Origin English

From Middle English Walsch (“Welsh(man)”), from Old English wælisċ, variant of wīelisċ.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Walsh

Kate Walsh (born 1967)American actress
María Elena Walsh (1930–2011)Argentine author and composer
Raoul Walsh (1887–1980)American film director and actor
M. Emmet Walsh (1935–2024)American actor
Joe Walsh (born 1947)American rock musician
Dylan Walsh (born 1963)American actor
Maiara Walsh (born 1988)Brazilian-American actress and singer
Fran Walsh (born 1959)New Zealand screenwriter and producer

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

Surnames like Walsh

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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.