Mack

69,776 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mack in the 2020 census, making it the 468th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,284.

By the numbers

People: 69,776
Rank: 468th
How common: 1 in 4,284
Per 100,000: 23.3

Where the name comes from

(In sense one) From either the male name Mack or mack, itself from mackerel, which comes from Old French maquerel, from Dutch makelaar. Compare French mec.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 47.5%
White, not Hispanic 43.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Mack

Allison Mack (born 1982)American former actress
Reinhold Mack (born 1949)German music producer and audio engineer
Timothy Mack (born 1972)American pole vaulter
Christy Mack (born 1991)American nude model and pornographic actress
Craig Mack (1970–2018)American rapper
Shelvin Mack (born 1990)American basketball player
Helen Mack (1913–1986)American actress
Lonnie Mack (1941–2016)American musician

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

Surnames like Mack

Also a first name

Mack has been given to 42,900 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1942. 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.