McCormick
61,083 people in the United States were counted with the surname McCormick in the 2020 census, making it the 543rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,893.
By the numbers
- People
- 61,083
- Rank
- 543rd
- How common
- 1 in 4,893
- Per 100,000
- 20.4
Where the name comes from
From gd, ga Mac Cormaic, from Old Irish Cormac, Corbmac, which is itself from corb (“chariot”) + mac (“son”). The double patronymic "arose when the meaning of Cormac began to be lost sight of". Many books of baby names also connect the name to an Irish word for "raven".
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname McCormick described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called McCormick
- Cyrus McCormick (1809–1884)American inventor and businessman
- Sierra McCormick (born 1997)American actress and model
- Pat McCormick (1930–2023)American diver
- David H. McCormick (born 1965)American politician and businessman
- Peter Dodds McCormick (1833–1916)Australian schoolteacher and songwriter
- Carolyn McCormick (born 1959)American actress
- Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (born 1979)American politician
- Kelly McCormick (born 1960)American diver
People named McCormick with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like McCormick
Try it on yourself
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.