McAbee

3,686 people in the United States were counted with the surname McAbee in the 2020 census, making it the 8,566th most common in the country. That is about one person in 81,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,686
Rank: 8,566th
How common: 1 in 81,100
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized spelling of Irish Mac an Beatha (“son of life”), from beatha (“life”), originally a term denoting a monk, but later used as a personal name.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.2%
Black, not Hispanic 7.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like McAbee

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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.