McAvoy

At the 2020 census, 4,686 Americans bore the surname McAvoy — 6,912th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 63,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,686
Rank: 6,912th
How common: 1 in 63,800
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Northern Irish variant of McEvoy.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called McAvoy

James McAvoy (born 1979)Scottish actor
May McAvoy (1899–1984)American actress
Charles McAvoy (born 1997)American ice hockey player

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

Surnames like McAvoy

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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.