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    The surname Mahaney

    A surname, carried by 2,949 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex M500

    Mahaney: #10,806 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Mahaney #10,806, 2,949 people Mahaney: #10,806 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mahaney #10,806, 2,949 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mahaney is more common than 93.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,949 people named Mahaney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 104,695 Americans. That is up 6.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,762.

    #10,806
    rank among US surnames
    2,949
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.8%
    change since 2000 (was #10,638)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,800Kesterson2,952104,589
    #10,803Giuliano2,951104,624
    #10,805Follett2,950104,660
    #10,806Mahaney2,949104,695
    #10,808Hoskinson2,948104,731
    #10,809Horak2,947104,766

    Who is named Mahaney

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

    91% of people named Mahaney identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mahaney

    Mahaney has the Soundex code M500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Mahaney?
    2,949 people in the United States had the surname Mahaney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 104,695 Americans. It ranked 10,806th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mahaney?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Mahaney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Mahaney getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,762 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,949 in 2010, up 6.8%.