How common is the surname Mahar?

3,302 people in the United States had the surname Mahar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,503 Americans. It ranked 9,803rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mahar?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Mahar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Mahar getting more or less common?

More common. 3,246 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,302 in 2010, up 1.7%.

The surname Mahar

An Irish surname, carried by 3,302 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mahar is more common than 94% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Variant of Maher.

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 3,302 people named Mahar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 93,503 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,246.

#9,803

rank among US surnames

3,302

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+1.7%

change since 2000 (was #9,238)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,794	Arechiga	3,306	93,389
#9,798	Trantham	3,304	93,446
#9,800	Casias	3,303	93,474
#9,803	Goto	3,302	93,503
#9,808	Whisenhunt	3,301	93,531
#9,810	Vos	3,300	93,559

Who is named Mahar

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

92% of people named Mahar identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Asian and Pacific Islander 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mahar

Mahar has the Soundex code M600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M600.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Mahar come from?: Variant of Maher.
How common is the surname Mahar?: 3,302 people in the United States had the surname Mahar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,503 Americans. It ranked 9,803rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mahar?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Mahar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Mahar getting more or less common?: More common. 3,246 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,302 in 2010, up 1.7%.