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    The surname Ratigan

    An Irish occupational surname, carried by 736 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex R325

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ratigan is more common than 80.6% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Reachtagáin (“descendant of Reachtagán”), a personal name from a diminutive of reachtaire (“administrator, steward”) or reacht (“law”).

    Ratigan 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 736 people named Ratigan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 419,491 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 734.

    #31,453
    rank among US surnames
    736
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.3%
    change since 2000 (was #30,120)

    Who is named Ratigan

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

    96% of people named Ratigan identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Rattigan

    Ratigan has the Soundex code R325, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R325.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Ratigan come from?
    Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Reachtagáin (“descendant of Reachtagán”), a personal name from a diminutive of reachtaire (“administrator, steward”) or reacht (“law”).
    How common is the surname Ratigan?
    736 people in the United States had the surname Ratigan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 419,491 Americans. It ranked 31,453rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Ratigan?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Ratigan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Ratigan?
    Ratigan is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Ratigan getting more or less common?
    More common. 734 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 736 in 2010, up 0.3%.
    What are other spellings of Ratigan?
    Rattigan.