How common is the surname Daugherty?

34,987 people in the United States had the surname Daugherty in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,825 Americans. It ranked 997th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Daugherty getting more or less common?

More common. 34,650 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 34,987 in 2010, up 1.0%.

The surname Daugherty

An Irish surname, carried by 34,987 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex D263

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Daugherty is more common than 99.4% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Variant of Doherty.

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 34,987 people named Daugherty in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 8,825 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 34,650.

#997

rank among US surnames

34,987

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+1%

change since 2000 (was #921)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#988	Cantrell	35,266	8,755
#989	Mayo	35,228	8,764
#990	Branch	35,225	8,765
#991	Hendrix	35,194	8,773
#992	Rollins	35,132	8,788
#993	Rowland	35,121	8,791
#994	Whitney	35,118	8,792

Who is named Daugherty

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

90% of people named Daugherty identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Daugherty

Daugherty has the Soundex code D263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D263.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Daugherty come from?: Variant of Doherty.
How common is the surname Daugherty?: 34,987 people in the United States had the surname Daugherty in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,825 Americans. It ranked 997th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Daugherty?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Daugherty identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Daugherty getting more or less common?: More common. 34,650 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 34,987 in 2010, up 1.0%.