McClellan

McClellan is the 1,420th most common surname in the United States, shared by 24,392 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 12,300.

By the numbers

People: 24,392
Rank: 1,420th
How common: 1 in 12,300
Per 100,000: 8.2

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Fhaolain and Irish Mac Giolla Fhaoláin (“son of the servant of Faolán”), a personal name thought to be a diminutive of Irish faol. Compare the surname Gilliland.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.6%
Black, not Hispanic 13.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Surnames like McClellan

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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.