as a Last Name
- 13,018
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Whelan
Meaning & Origins
Irish (southern provinces): reduced and altered Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Faoláin ‘descendant of Faolán’, a personal name representing a diminutive of faol ‘wolf’.
| 2,793rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,018
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Whelan per capita
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