Mac

At the 2020 census, 3,156 Americans bore the surname Mac — 9,797th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 94,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,156
Rank: 9,797th
How common: 1 in 94,700
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mac described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 52.0%
White, not Hispanic 29.8%
Black, not Hispanic 10.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Mac

Bernie Mac (1957–2008)American actor

People named Mac with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mac

Also a first name

Mac has been given to 11,455 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.