McCain

At the 2020 census, 17,744 Americans bore the surname McCain — 1,985th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,800.

By the numbers

People: 17,744
Rank: 1,985th
How common: 1 in 16,800
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From the Irish variant of McKean.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 61.7%
Black, not Hispanic 28.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called McCain

John McCain (1936–2018)American politician
Cindy McCain (born 1954)community organizer
Meghan McCain (born 1984)American columnist, author, and television personality
Frances Lee McCain (born 1944)American actress
Jared McCain (born 2004)American basketball player
John S. McCain, Jr. (1911–1981)United States Navy admiral
Roberta McCain (1912–2020)mother of John McCain
John S. McCain, Sr. (1884–1945)United States Navy admiral

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

Surnames like McCain

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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.