Mackey

29,103 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mackey in the 2020 census, making it the 1,185th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,300.

By the numbers

People: 29,103
Rank: 1,185th
How common: 1 in 10,300
Per 100,000: 9.7

Where the name comes from

Compare Mackie, McKay.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.7%
Black, not Hispanic 23.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Mackey

Emma Mackey (born 1996)British-French actress and model
Albert Mackey (1807–1881)U.S. writer on freemasonry
Frank MacKey (1852–1927)polo player
Annie Foreman-Mackey (born 1991)Canadian cyclist
Bill Mackey (1927–1951)American racing driver
George Mackey (1916–2006)American mathematician

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

Surnames like Mackey

Also a first name

Mackey has been given to 618 American babies as a first name since 1919, peaking in 1950. 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.