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    The surname Manahan

    A Tagalog surname, carried by 2,673 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex M550

    Manahan: #11,722 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Manahan #11,722, 2,673 people Manahan: #11,722 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Manahan #11,722, 2,673 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Manahan is more common than 92.8% of them.

    Origin

    Tagalog origin

    Of Irish origin (White surname), or from Tagalog (Asian surname)

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,673 people named Manahan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 115,505 Americans. That is up 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,171.

    #11,722
    rank among US surnames
    2,673
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +23.1%
    change since 2000 (was #12,955)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,714Dismuke2,676115,376
    #11,716Ikeda2,675115,419
    #11,719Blazek2,674115,462
    #11,722Pickel2,673115,505
    #11,728Currey2,672115,548

    Who is named Manahan

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

    72% of people named Manahan identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 72%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 18%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
    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

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Manahan

    Manahan has the Soundex code M550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M550.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Manahan come from?
    Of Irish origin (White surname), or from Tagalog (Asian surname)
    How common is the surname Manahan?
    2,673 people in the United States had the surname Manahan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,505 Americans. It ranked 11,722nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Manahan?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Manahan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Manahan getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,171 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,673 in 2010, up 23%.