McAllister

McAllister is the 1,222nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 28,274 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,600.

By the numbers

People: 28,274
Rank: 1,222nd
How common: 1 in 10,600
Per 100,000: 9.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Alasdair (“son of Alexander”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.5%
Black, not Hispanic 15.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McAllister

Gary McAllister (born 1964)Scottish football player and manager
David McAllister (born 1971)German politician
Mary McAllister (1909–1991)American actress
Laura McAllister (born 1964)Welsh footballer & politics academic
Jamie McAllister (born 1978)Scottish footballer

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

Surnames like McAllister

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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.