McCaskill

McCaskill is the 5,995th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,529 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 54,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,529
Rank: 5,995th
How common: 1 in 54,100
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic, from Old Norse

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Asgaill (“son of Asgall”), a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse personal name Ásketill, composed of the elements áss (“god”) + ketill (“kettle, cauldron”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 49.7%
Black, not Hispanic 42.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called McCaskill

Claire McCaskill (born 1953)American politician

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

Surnames like McCaskill

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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.