McCann

McCann is the 1,009th most common surname in the United States, shared by 34,078 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,771.

By the numbers

People: 34,078
Rank: 1,009th
How common: 1 in 8,771
Per 100,000: 11.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Cana (“son of Cana”), a nickname from cana (“wolf cub”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.0%
Black, not Hispanic 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McCann

Chuck McCann (1934–2018)American voice actor and comedian
Rory McCann (born 1969)Scottish actor
Colum McCann (born 1965)Irish writer and journalist
Gavin McCann (born 1978)English footballer
Jared McCann (born 1996)Canadian ice hockey player
Les McCann (1935–2023)American jazz pianist and vocalist
Brian McCann (born 1984)American former baseball player
Michael McCann (born 1977)field hockey player

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

Surnames like McCann

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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.