How common is the surname Lanigan?

2,596 people in the United States had the surname Lanigan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 118,931 Americans. It ranked 12,025th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lanigan?

In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Lanigan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lanigan getting more or less common?

More common. 2,350 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,596 in 2010, up 11%.

The surname Lanigan

An Irish patronymic surname, carried by 2,596 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L525

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lanigan is more common than 92.6% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Lonagáin (“descendant of Lonagán”), apparently a double diminutive of lon (“blackbird”), but possibly a variant of Flanagan.

Lanigan 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 2,596 people named Lanigan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 118,931 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,350.

#12,025

rank among US surnames

2,596

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+10.5%

change since 2000 (was #12,157)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,017	Satchell	2,598	118,840
#12,022	Detrick	2,597	118,885
#12,025	Pless	2,596	118,931
#12,031	Lamoreaux	2,595	118,977
#12,033	Nimmo	2,594	119,023

Who is named Lanigan

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

89% of people named Lanigan identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.2%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Lanagan

Surnames that sound like Lanigan

Lanigan has the Soundex code L525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L525.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lanigan come from?: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Lonagáin (“descendant of Lonagán”), apparently a double diminutive of lon (“blackbird”), but possibly a variant of Flanagan.
How common is the surname Lanigan?: 2,596 people in the United States had the surname Lanigan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 118,931 Americans. It ranked 12,025th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lanigan?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Lanigan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Lanigan?: Lanigan is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Lanigan getting more or less common?: More common. 2,350 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,596 in 2010, up 11%.
What are other spellings of Lanigan?: Lanagan.