McCord

At the 2020 census, 16,968 Americans bore the surname McCord — 2,075th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,600.

By the numbers

People: 16,968
Rank: 2,075th
How common: 1 in 17,600
Per 100,000: 5.7

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Cuairt or Mac Cuarta, meaning "son of a journey, " from mac + cuairt. Compare McMurtry.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.3%
Black, not Hispanic 14.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called McCord

AnnaLynne McCord (born 1987)American actress
Tim McCord (born 1979)American rock musician
Kent McCord (born 1942)American actor

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

Surnames like McCord

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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.