# Shaughnessy (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/shaughnessy/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Irish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Irish |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 6,117 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,672 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 50,473 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.3% (6,037 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Irish Seachnasaigh.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Shaughnessy in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 96% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 0.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Shaughnessy in the United States.

## People named Shaughnessy

- Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player
- Mickey Shaughnessy, American actor (1920-1985)
- Ed Shaughnessy, American jazz drummer (1929–2013)

## Similar surnames

Scoggins, Sessions, Sessoms, Siguenza, Sosnowski.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.