McCartney
At the 2020 census, 12,745 Americans bore the surname McCartney — 2,753rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,500.
By the numbers
- People
- 12,745
- Rank
- 2,753rd
- How common
- 1 in 23,500
- Per 100,000
- 4.3
Where the name comes from
Origin Scottish Gaelic
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Artaine, from mac (“son”) + Artan, a diminutive of the name Art, from Old Irish art (“bear”). Compare McCartan, of similar origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname McCartney described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called McCartney
- Paul McCartney (born 1942)English musician and member of the Beatles
- Stella McCartney (born 1971)British fashion designer
- Jesse McCartney (born 1987)American singer and actor
- Linda McCartney (1941–1998)American photographer, musician and animal rights activist
- Eliza McCartney (born 1996)New Zealand athletics competitor
- George McCartney (born 1981)Northern Irish footballer
- Jason McCartney (born 1973)American cyclist
- Mary McCartney (born 1969)British photographer, daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney
People named McCartney with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like McCartney
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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.