Halpin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hAilpIn ‘descendant of Alpm’, an ancient personal name, which MacLysaght and Woulfe link etymologically with alp ‘lump’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhæɫpɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Halpin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 6.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 23K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hAilpIn ‘descendant of Alpm’, an ancient personal name, which MacLysaght and Woulfe link etymologically with alp ‘lump’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Halpin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Halpin | 6 |
| US United States | — | 5,865 | 1 in 57K | 5.9K | Halpin | 339 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Halpin | 159 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Halpin | 126 |
| IE Ireland | #484 | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Halpin | 96 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Halpin | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Halpin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Breton, laper (en haletant)
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas Halpinb. 1892USOlympic track and field athlete (1892–1960)
- Gerald Halpinb. 1899AUcyclist (1899-1944)
- Terry Halpinb. 1900AUAustralian computer scientist
- Marjorie Halpinb. 1937USAmerican-Canadian anthropologist
- Anita Halpinb. 1944GBBritish journalist, unionist and political activist
- Luke Halpinb. 1947USAmerican actor
- Patrick G. Halpinb. 1953USAmerican politician
- Scot Halpinb. 1954USAmerican musician (1954–2008)
- Saul Halpinb. 1991GBEnglish footballer (born 1991)
- Joe HalpinUSAmerican screenwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.9K | #5,886 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.7K | #5,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.5K | #6,021 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Halpin mean, and where does it come from?
- shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hAilpIn ‘descendant of Alpm’, an ancient personal name, which MacLysaght and Woulfe link etymologically with alp ‘lump’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Halpin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæɫpɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Halpin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Halpin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled halpin.
- How common is the name Halpin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,865 people named Halpin in 2010, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Halpin compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Halpin is the 484th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/halpinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Halpin” — the 484th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.