How common is the surname Ahearn?

4,628 people in the United States had the surname Ahearn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 66,713 Americans. It ranked 7,211th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ahearn?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Ahearn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Ahearn?

Blake Ahearn, American basketball player (born 1984), followed by Kevin Ahearn.

Where is the surname Ahearn most common?

Wikidata records people named Ahearn in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Ahearn getting more or less common?

More common. 4,564 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,628 in 2010, up 1.4%.

The surname Ahearn

An Irish surname, carried by 4,628 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex A650

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ahearn is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Variant of Ahern.

One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,628 people named Ahearn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 66,713 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,564.

#7,211

rank among US surnames

4,628

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.4%

change since 2000 (was #6,804)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,207	Millet	4,631	66,669
#7,209	Mendieta	4,630	66,684
#7,210	Luker	4,629	66,698
#7,211	Eckstein	4,628	66,713

Who is named Ahearn

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Ahearn identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Ahearns

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Blake Ahearn
American basketball player (born 1984)
Kevin Ahearn
American ice hockey player, born 1948
Michael A'Hearn
American astronomer and professor (1940-2017)
Nicholas A'Hern
Australian racewalker, born 1969

Notable Ahearns come mostly from the United States (3) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ahearn

Ahearn has the Soundex code A650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A650.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Ahearn come from?: Variant of Ahern.
How common is the surname Ahearn?: 4,628 people in the United States had the surname Ahearn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 66,713 Americans. It ranked 7,211th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ahearn?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Ahearn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Ahearn?: Blake Ahearn, American basketball player (born 1984), followed by Kevin Ahearn.
Where is the surname Ahearn most common?: Wikidata records people named Ahearn in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Is the surname Ahearn getting more or less common?: More common. 4,564 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,628 in 2010, up 1.4%.