How common is the last name Flaherty?

17,426 people in the United States have the last name Flaherty, about 1 in 17,152. It ranks #2,027 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

FLAHERTY

#2,027

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
17,426
About
1 in 17,152
This common or more
47.9%
Who bears it

Of the 17,426 people with the last name Flaherty, 93.8% reported their origin as White, 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 2.3% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Flaherty

#2,024 Grover · 17,441#2,026 Woody · 17,436#2,028 Waite · 17,416#2,029 Bueno · 17,395

Spelled almost the same

5 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Flaherty, most common first.

#13,624 Fluharty · 2,129#43,428 Flaharty · 536#62,049 Fleharty · 349#139,785 Flahart · 123#154,182 Flairty · 103

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