The surname O'Hara
An Irish surname, carried by 21,710 people in the United States.
Pronounced /oʊˈhæɹɑ/ 3 syllables Soundex O600
Origin
Irish origin
Anglicization of Irish Ó hEaghra.
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 21,710 people named O'Hara in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,221 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 21,068.
Who is named O'Hara
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named O'Hara identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 3.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.8%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
O'Hara has the Soundex code O600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O600.
Other Irish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname O'Hara come from?
- Anglicization of Irish Ó hEaghra.
- How common is the surname O'Hara?
- 21,710 people in the United States had the surname O'Hara in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,221 Americans. It ranked 1,660th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname O'Hara?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named O'Hara identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- How do you pronounce O'Hara?
- O'Hara is /oʊˈhæɹɑ/, 3 syllables.
- Is the surname O'Hara getting more or less common?
- More common. 21,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,710 in 2010, up 3.0%.