Macleod

Macleod is the 4,393rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,819 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 38,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,819
Rank: 4,393rd
How common: 1 in 38,200
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicization of various Irish or Scottish Gaelic surnames. In Canada, the surname is also used as a common Anglicization of cr ᒪᐦᑭᔪᐠ (“the big one”) according to records of Scottish missionaries.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Macleod

John James Rickard Macleod (1876–1935)Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
Kevin MacLeod (born 1972)American composer and music producer
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912–2000)Mother of Donald Trump
Gavin MacLeod (1931–2021)American actor
Ken MacLeod (born 1954)Scottish science fiction writer
Hannah Macleod (born 1984)British field hockey player
Iain Macleod (1913–1970)British politician, cabinet minister and contract bridge player
Alistair MacLeod (1936–2014)Canadian author and professor of English

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

Surnames like Macleod

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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.