McClintock

McClintock is the 4,056th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,506 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 35,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,506
Rank: 4,056th
How common: 1 in 35,100
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Fhionntóg and Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Fhionndaig (“son of the servant of (Saint) Finndag”), a personal name derived from fionn (“white”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.5%
Black, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called McClintock

Barbara McClintock (1902–1992)American scientist and cytogeneticist
Eddie McClintock (born 1967)American actor
Leopold McClintock (1819–1907)Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy
Tom McClintock (born 1956)U.S. Representative from California
Elizabeth May McClintock (1912–2004)American botanist

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

Surnames like McClintock

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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.