How common is the surname Maguire?

16,713 people in the United States had the surname Maguire in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 18,473 Americans. It ranked 2,173rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Maguire?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Maguire identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Maguire?

Sean Maguire, British actor and singer (born 1976), followed by Martie Maguire.

Where is the surname Maguire most common?

Wikidata records people named Maguire in the United States and the United Kingdom.

How do you pronounce Maguire?

Maguire is /məˈɡwaɪɹ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Maguire getting more or less common?

More common. 15,853 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 16,713 in 2010, up 5.4%.

The surname Maguire

An Irish surname, carried by 16,713 people in the United States.

Pronounced /məˈɡwaɪɹ/ 2 syllables Soundex M260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Maguire is more common than 98.7% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Anglicized from Irish Mag Uidhir.

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 16,713 people named Maguire in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 18,473 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 15,853.

#2,173

rank among US surnames

16,713

people in 2010

5.7

per 100,000 Americans

+5.4%

change since 2000 (was #2,100)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,164	Light	16,769	18,412
#2,166	Almeida	16,760	18,422
#2,167	Hawthorne	16,758	18,424
#2,168	Pendleton	16,751	18,431
#2,169	Naylor	16,745	18,438
#2,170	Gerber	16,732	18,452
#2,171	Schrader	16,727	18,458

Who is named Maguire

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

95% of people named Maguire identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Maguires

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Sean Maguire
British actor and singer (born 1976)
Martie Maguire
American musician, born 1969
Sean Maguire
Association football player (born 1994)
Jeremy Maguire
American actor, born 2011
Andrew Maguire
American politician, born 1939
Kevin Maguire
Artist, born 1960

Notable Maguires come mostly from the United States (4) and the United Kingdom (2).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Maguire

Maguire has the Soundex code M260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M260.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Maguire come from?: Anglicized from Irish Mag Uidhir.
How common is the surname Maguire?: 16,713 people in the United States had the surname Maguire in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 18,473 Americans. It ranked 2,173rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Maguire?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Maguire identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Maguire?: Sean Maguire, British actor and singer (born 1976), followed by Martie Maguire.
Where is the surname Maguire most common?: Wikidata records people named Maguire in the United States and the United Kingdom.
How do you pronounce Maguire?: Maguire is /məˈɡwaɪɹ/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Maguire getting more or less common?: More common. 15,853 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 16,713 in 2010, up 5.4%.