McClain

At the 2020 census, 45,911 Americans bore the surname McClain — 734th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,510.

By the numbers

People: 45,911
Rank: 734th
How common: 1 in 6,510
Per 100,000: 15.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.3%
Black, not Hispanic 31.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McClain

China Anne McClain (born 1998)American actress and singer
Anne McClain (born 1979)American astronaut
Katrina McClain (born 1965)American basketball player
Lisa McClain (born 1966)American politician
Cady McClain (born 1969)American actress
Dave McClain (born 1965)American drummer

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

Surnames like McClain

Also a first name

McClain has been given to 586 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

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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.