How common is the surname Lahey?

2,391 people in the United States had the surname Lahey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 129,128 Americans. It ranked 12,872nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lahey?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lahey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lahey getting more or less common?

More common. 2,280 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,391 in 2010, up 4.9%.

The surname Lahey

An Irish surname, carried by 2,391 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lahey is more common than 92.1% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Variant spelling of Leahy.

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 2,391 people named Lahey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 129,128 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,280.

#12,872

rank among US surnames

2,391

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+4.9%

change since 2000 (was #12,481)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,865	Wunder	2,393	129,020
#12,869	Buckwalter	2,392	129,074
#12,872	Luebke	2,391	129,128
#12,878	Silber	2,390	129,182
#12,881	Dearth	2,389	129,236

Who is named Lahey

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

96% of people named Lahey identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%

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 Lahey

Lahey has the Soundex code L000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L000.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lahey come from?: Variant spelling of Leahy.
How common is the surname Lahey?: 2,391 people in the United States had the surname Lahey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 129,128 Americans. It ranked 12,872nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lahey?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lahey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lahey getting more or less common?: More common. 2,280 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,391 in 2010, up 4.9%.