Halloran
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Irish Gaelic O hAllmhurdin, ‘descendant of Allmhurdn’, a personal name meaning literally ‘little foreigner’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhæɫɝən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Halloran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 61K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 14Kas O'Halloran
- AUAustralia≈1 in 17Kas O'Halloran
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Halloran itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- 1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,400 named Ohalloran, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ohalloran in US United States, GB United Kingdom, EG Egypt and 2 more and O'Halloran in AU Australia, IE Ireland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Irish Gaelic O hAllmhurdin, ‘descendant of Allmhurdn’, a personal name meaning literally ‘little foreigner’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Halloran 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 | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Halloran | 3 |
| US United States | — | 5,465 | 1 in 61K | 5.5K | Ohalloran | 242 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | O'Halloran | 112 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 73K | 2.2K | Ohalloran | 117 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Ohalloran | 2 |
| IE Ireland | #444 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | O'Halloran | 73 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Ohalloran | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Ohalloran | 1 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Halloran is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hAllmhurain ‘descendant ofAllmhurdn’, a personal name from a diminutive of allmhurach ‘foreigner’ (from all ‘beyond’ + muir ‘sea’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
‘descendant of Allmlnuran', a personal name from a dim. of allmhurach foreigner (from all beyond + muir sea). Vars.: O’Halowrane, O’Halloraine, O’Halloran, O’Hallaran, O’Halleran, O’Halleron, Holloran.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Henry Halloranb. 1811ZAAustralian civil servant and poet (1811-1893)
- Jack Halloranb. 1916USAmerican composer and choral director (1916-1997)
- Nancy Pyleb. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (died 2023)
- Kay Halloranb. 1937USAmerican politician
- M Elizabeth Halloranb. 1950USAmerican biostatistician
- Shawn Halloranb. 1964USAmerican football player (born 1964)
- Dan Halloranb. 1972USlawyer, politician
- Lia Halloranb. 1977USAmerican artist (born 1977)
- Ben Halloranb. 1992AUAustralian association football player
- Amy HalloranUSAmerican actress
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.5K | #6,248 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.2K | #6,061 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.1K | #6,365 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Halloran mean, and where does it come from?
- From Irish Gaelic O hAllmhurdin, ‘descendant of Allmhurdn’, a personal name meaning literally ‘little foreigner’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Halloran?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæɫɝən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Halloran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Ohalloran in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Halloran most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Halloran is densest in the United States — about 1 in 61 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Halloran?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,465 people named Halloran in 2010, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
- How common is Halloran compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Halloran is the 444th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/halloranThe 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, “Halloran” — the 444th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.