McCarty

35,172 people in the United States were counted with the surname McCarty in the 2020 census, making it the 981st most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,498.

By the numbers

People: 35,172
Rank: 981st
How common: 1 in 8,498
Per 100,000: 11.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Southern Irish variant of McCarthy.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.6%
Black, not Hispanic 6.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called McCarty

Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005)American geneticist
Kelli McCarty (born 1969)American actress and model
Dax McCarty (born 1987)American soccer player
Jim McCarty (born 1943)English drummer
Kelly McCarty (born 1975)American-Russian basketball player

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

Surnames like McCarty

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.