Macpherson

At the 2020 census, 5,439 Americans bore the surname Macpherson — 6,065th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 55,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,439
Rank: 6,065th
How common: 1 in 55,000
Per 100,000: 1.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Hispanic or Latino 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Macpherson

Elle Macpherson (born 1964)Australian model and actress
James Macpherson (1736–1796)British writer, poet, translator and politician
Jeanie MacPherson (1886–1946)actress, screenwriter
David Macpherson (born 1967)Australian tennis player
Michelle MacPherson (born 1966)Canadian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist
Robert MacPherson (born 1944)American mathematician

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

Surnames like Macpherson

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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.