How common is the surname Donegan?

4,372 people in the United States had the surname Donegan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,619 Americans. It ranked 7,601st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Donegan?

Dan Donegan, American guitarist, followed by Dorothy Donegan.

Where is the surname Donegan most common?

Wikidata records people named Donegan in the United States.

Is the surname Donegan getting more or less common?

More common. 4,056 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,372 in 2010, up 7.8%.

The surname Donegan

An Irish patronymic surname, carried by 4,372 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex D525

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Donegan is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Donnagáin (“descendant of Donnagán”), a personal name derived from a double diminutive of donn (“brown”).

Donegan is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

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 4,372 people named Donegan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,619 Americans. That is up 7.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,056.

#7,601

rank among US surnames

4,372

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+7.8%

change since 2000 (was #7,560)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,597	Mertens	4,375	70,570
#7,599	Renshaw	4,374	70,587
#7,600	Peele	4,373	70,603
#7,601	Bachmann	4,372	70,619
#7,605	Smedley	4,371	70,635

Who is named Donegan

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

86% of people named Donegan identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 86%
Black (not Hispanic) 9.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Donegans

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Dan Donegan
American guitarist, born 1968
Dorothy Donegan
American jazz pianist (1922–1998)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Dunnagan

Surnames that sound like Donegan

Donegan has the Soundex code D525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D525.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Donegan come from?: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Donnagáin (“descendant of Donnagán”), a personal name derived from a double diminutive of donn (“brown”).
How common is the surname Donegan?: 4,372 people in the United States had the surname Donegan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,619 Americans. It ranked 7,601st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Donegan?: In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Donegan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Donegan?: Dan Donegan, American guitarist, followed by Dorothy Donegan.
Where is the surname Donegan most common?: Wikidata records people named Donegan in the United States.
What type of surname is Donegan?: Donegan is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Donegan getting more or less common?: More common. 4,056 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,372 in 2010, up 7.8%.
What are other spellings of Donegan?: Dunnagan.