How common is the surname Callaghan?

6,191 people in the United States had the surname Callaghan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 49,870 Americans. It ranked 5,614th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Callaghan?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Callaghan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Callaghan getting more or less common?

More common. 5,883 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,191 in 2010, up 5.2%.

Is Callaghan also a first name?

Yes. Callaghan is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Callaghan

An Irish surname, carried by 6,191 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C425

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Callaghan is more common than 96.5% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Variant of Callahan

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 6,191 people named Callaghan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 49,870 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,883.

#5,614

rank among US surnames

6,191

people in 2010

2.1

per 100,000 Americans

+5.2%

change since 2000 (was #5,440)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,605	Watanabe	6,204	49,766
#5,606	Bae	6,203	49,774
#5,607	Burd	6,202	49,782
#5,608	Varga	6,201	49,790
#5,609	Alegria	6,200	49,798
#5,610	Homer	6,198	49,814
#5,611	Kirkman	6,197	49,822

Who is named Callaghan

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

94% of people named Callaghan identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Callaghan

Callison

Callaghan has the Soundex code C425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C425.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Callaghan come from?: Variant of Callahan
How common is the surname Callaghan?: 6,191 people in the United States had the surname Callaghan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 49,870 Americans. It ranked 5,614th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Callaghan?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Callaghan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Callaghan getting more or less common?: More common. 5,883 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,191 in 2010, up 5.2%.
Is Callaghan also a first name?: Yes. Callaghan is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.