Macdonald

At the 2020 census, 45,126 Americans bore the surname Macdonald — 752nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,624.

By the numbers

People: 45,126
Rank: 752nd
How common: 1 in 6,624
Per 100,000: 15.1

Where the name comes from

A spelling variant of MacDonald.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Macdonald

Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937)British prime minister in 1924 and 1929 to 1935
John A. Macdonald (1815–1891)1st prime minister of Canada from 1867 to 1873 and 1878 to 1891
Amy Macdonald (born 1987)Scottish singer-songwriter
George MacDonald (1824–1905)Scottish writer and Christian minister
Norm Macdonald (1959–2021)Canadian comedian
Kelly Macdonald (born 1976)Scottish actress
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald (1765–1840)Marshal of France
Ross Macdonald (1915–1983)American writer

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

Surnames like Macdonald

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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.