McClure

McClure is the 742nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 45,586 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,557.

By the numbers

People: 45,586
Rank: 742nd
How common: 1 in 6,557
Per 100,000: 15.3

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Uidhir and Irish Mac Giolla Uidhir (“son of the dun lad”), from Mac + gille + uidhir, obsolete form of odhar (“dun; dark”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.8%
Black, not Hispanic 9.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called McClure

Kandyse McClure (born 1980)Canadian actress
Robert John McClure (1807–1873)Royal Navy admiral and arctic explorer
Vicky McClure (born 1983)British actress
Doug McClure (1935–1995)American actor
Marc McClure (born 1957)American actor
Michael McClure (1932–2020)American writer
Richard McClure (1935–2024)Canadian rower
Wilbert McClure (1938–2020)American boxer

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

Surnames like McClure

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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.