McCoy

At the 2020 census, 107,288 Americans bore the surname McCoy — 287th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,786.

By the numbers

People: 107,288
Rank: 287th
How common: 1 in 2,786
Per 100,000: 35.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 64.5%
Black, not Hispanic 25.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called McCoy

Sylvester McCoy (born 1943)Scottish actor
Travie McCoy (born 1981)American rapper and singer
Horace McCoy (1897–1955)American writer
Matt McCoy (born 1958)American actor
Tim McCoy (1891–1978)American actor and television host
Sandra McCoy (born 1979)American actress
Harry McCoy (1889–1937)American actor
Van McCoy (1940–1979)American musician, producer and songwriter

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

Surnames like McCoy

Also a first name

McCoy has been given to 4,673 American babies as a first name since 1905, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

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.