How common is the surname Callihan?

3,122 people in the United States had the surname Callihan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,894 Americans. It ranked 10,320th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Callihan getting more or less common?

More common. 3,075 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,122 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Callihan

An Irish surname, carried by 3,122 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C450

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Callihan is more common than 93.6% 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 3,122 people named Callihan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 98,894 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,075.

#10,320

rank among US surnames

3,122

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #9,693)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,314	Bullis	3,124	98,830
#10,316	Yong	3,123	98,862
#10,320	Merlo	3,122	98,894
#10,324	Joo	3,121	98,925
#10,326	Wegener	3,120	98,957

Who is named Callihan

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

93% of people named Callihan identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Callihan

Callihan has the Soundex code C450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C450.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Callihan come from?: Variant of Callahan.
How common is the surname Callihan?: 3,122 people in the United States had the surname Callihan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,894 Americans. It ranked 10,320th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Callihan?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Callihan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Callihan getting more or less common?: More common. 3,075 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,122 in 2010, up 1.5%.