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    The surname Fluharty

    An Irish surname, carried by 2,111 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex F463

    Fluharty: #14,215 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Fluharty #14,215, 2,111 people Fluharty: #14,215 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Fluharty #14,215, 2,111 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fluharty is more common than 91.2% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Possibly a variant of Flaherty.

    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 2,111 people named Fluharty in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 146,256 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,085.

    #14,215
    rank among US surnames
    2,111
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.2%
    change since 2000 (was #13,396)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,208Sprayberry2,113146,117
    #14,213Fodor2,112146,186
    #14,215Cruickshank2,111146,256
    #14,220Cella2,110146,325
    #14,223Lohse2,109146,394

    Who is named Fluharty

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

    97% of people named Fluharty identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Fluharty

    Fluharty has the Soundex code F463, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F463.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fluharty come from?
    Possibly a variant of Flaherty.
    How common is the surname Fluharty?
    2,111 people in the United States had the surname Fluharty in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 146,256 Americans. It ranked 14,215th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fluharty?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Fluharty identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.9% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Fluharty getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,085 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,111 in 2010, up 1.2%.