McAlpine

McAlpine is the 8,540th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,700 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 80,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,700
Rank: 8,540th
How common: 1 in 80,800
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Ailpín and Scottish Gaelic Mac Ailpein (“son of Ailpean”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of ailp (“lump; stout person”). Compare O'Halpin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.5%
Black, not Hispanic 15.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McAlpine

Kenneth McAlpine (1920–2023)racecar driver
Lizzy McAlpine (born 1999)American singer-songwriter
Donald McAlpine (born 1934)Australian cinematographer

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

Surnames like McAlpine

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.