McClelland

13,444 people in the United States were counted with the surname McClelland in the 2020 census, making it the 2,622nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 22,200.

By the numbers

People: 13,444
Rank: 2,622nd
How common: 1 in 22,200
Per 100,000: 4.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Northern Irish variant of McClellan.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.2%
Black, not Hispanic 10.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McClelland

David McClelland (1917–1998)American psychologist
John McClelland (born 1955)Northern Irish footballer and manager
James McClelland (born 1948)American psychologist
Robert McClelland (1807–1880)American governor of Michigan

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

Surnames like McClelland

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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.