The surname Scallan
An Irish patronymic surname, carried by 698 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S450
Origin
Irish origin
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Scealláin (“descendant of Sceallán”), a byname from sceallán (“pip, kernel, stone of fruit”).
Scallan is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
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 698 people named Scallan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 442,329 Americans. That is down 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 791.
Who is named Scallan
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
97% of people named Scallan identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 97%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Scallon
Surnames that sound like Scallan
Scallan has the Soundex code S450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S450.
Other Irish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Scallan come from?
- Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Scealláin (“descendant of Sceallán”), a byname from sceallán (“pip, kernel, stone of fruit”).
- How common is the surname Scallan?
- 698 people in the United States had the surname Scallan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 442,329 Americans. It ranked 32,865th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Scallan?
- In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Scallan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Scallan?
- Scallan is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Scallan getting more or less common?
- Less common. 791 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 698 in 2010, down 12%.
- What are other spellings of Scallan?
- Scallon.