McClanahan

McClanahan is the 3,697th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,337 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 32,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,337
Rank: 3,697th
How common: 1 in 32,000
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Leanacháin (“son of Leanachán”), a personal name which ultimately derives from leann (“cloak, mantle”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.8%
Black, not Hispanic 6.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McClanahan

Rue McClanahan (1934–2010)American actress and comedian
Rob McClanahan (born 1958)American ice hockey player

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

Surnames like McClanahan

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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.