Finegan is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Finegan
No. of characters: 7
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Finegan

How popular is Finegan?

Finegan is common in United States.

Finegan is ranked 91562 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Finegan bearers increased by 2.816901 per cent in 2010 US census to 1752 since 2000, the surname slipped by 689 spots and ranked at 16420. The last name was found in around 6 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 93.61 94.54
Hispanic or Latino 2.91 2
Black 2.05 1.94
Others 0.68 0.94
Finegan is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Ireland is ahead in terms of density. Around 4666 people have been found who wears Finegan as their family name. Finegan is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
100,092 Spain9
6,235 Costa Rica7
1,346 Bermuda6
615,517 Russia6
127,708 Czech Republic3
14,521 Portugal2
219,873 France2
12,161 Wales2
492,292 Ukraine1
1,254 Gibraltar1
8,181 Botswana1
153,416 Italy1
6,688 Malawi1
118,015 Netherlands1
24,176 Qatar1
36,678 Singapore1
81,201 Switzerland1
169,904 Brazil1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
9,780 Scotland46
21,268 New Zealand21
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
41,664 Canada76
Countries with hundreds of Finegan:
873 Ireland759
10,845 England581
11,021 Australia253
1,340 Jamaica214
50,182 Germany202
39,125 South Africa128
2,133 Northern Ireland107
Countries with thousands of Finegan:
15,083 United States2,232
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Workman John Finegan from Ireland aboard the Clarence from Galway during the Irish famine. He is registered to be 27 years old when he arrived in USA on May 19, 1846. Michael Finegan (30) Workman, Mary Finegan (26) Spinster, Catherine Finegan (19) Maid, Workman James Finegan, Pat Finegan (20) Workman, 25 years old Cathrine Finegan, Workman Martin Finegan, Michael Finegan (22) Workman, and 150 other Finegan around 59.14% of whom were workman while others worked as spinster and servant, coachmaker, farmer, bookmaker migrated to US from Galway, Dublin and Liverpool.

Finegan Namesakes

  • Bill Finegan, Composer
  • Nevan Finegan, Actor
  • Nevan Finegan, Actor

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