How common is the surname Finegan?

1,752 people in the United States had the surname Finegan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 176,225 Americans. It ranked 16,420th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Finegan?

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

Is the surname Finegan getting more or less common?

More common. 1,704 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,752 in 2010, up 2.8%.

The surname Finegan

A surname, carried by 1,752 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex F525

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Finegan is more common than 89.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,752 people named Finegan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 176,225 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,704.

#16,420

rank among US surnames

1,752

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+2.8%

change since 2000 (was #15,731)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,415	Pietsch	1,753	176,124
#16,420	Bardsley	1,752	176,225
#16,427	McGeorge	1,751	176,325

Who is named Finegan

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

94% of people named Finegan identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.0%
Two or more races 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Finegan

Finegan has the Soundex code F525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F525.

Questions

How common is the surname Finegan?: 1,752 people in the United States had the surname Finegan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 176,225 Americans. It ranked 16,420th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Finegan?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Finegan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Finegan getting more or less common?: More common. 1,704 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,752 in 2010, up 2.8%.