as a Last Name
- 27,409
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Doherty
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dochartaigh ‘descendant of Dochartach’, a byname from do + cartach ‘not loving’. The family were chieftains in Donegal.
| 1,099th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 27,409
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Doherty per capita
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