How common is the surname Mulvihill?

3,189 people in the United States had the surname Mulvihill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,816 Americans. It ranked 10,099th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mulvihill?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mulvihill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Mulvihill getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,221 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,189 in 2010, down 1.0%.

The surname Mulvihill

An Irish occupational surname, carried by 3,189 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M414

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mulvihill is more common than 93.8% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoilmhichíl (“descendant of the servant of (Saint) Michael”).

Mulvihill is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

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 3,189 people named Mulvihill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,816 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,221.

#10,099

rank among US surnames

3,189

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

-1%

change since 2000 (was #9,302)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,090	Koziol	3,194	96,664
#10,092	Mines	3,193	96,694
#10,095	Perrault	3,190	96,785
#10,099	Standish	3,189	96,816
#10,103	Genao	3,188	96,846
#10,107	Calabro	3,187	96,877

Who is named Mulvihill

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

96% of people named Mulvihill identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mulvihill

Melville

Mulvihill has the Soundex code M414, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M414.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Mulvihill come from?: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoilmhichíl (“descendant of the servant of (Saint) Michael”).
How common is the surname Mulvihill?: 3,189 people in the United States had the surname Mulvihill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,816 Americans. It ranked 10,099th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mulvihill?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mulvihill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Mulvihill?: Mulvihill is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Mulvihill getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,221 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,189 in 2010, down 1.0%.