McCracken

At the 2020 census, 18,142 Americans bore the surname McCracken — 1,939th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,500.

By the numbers

People: 18,142
Rank: 1,939th
How common: 1 in 16,500
Per 100,000: 6.1

Where the name comes from

Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Reachtain, a variant of Mac Neachtain (see McNaughton).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called McCracken

Craig McCracken (born 1971)American cartoonist and animator
Josiah McCracken (1874–1962)American football player, athlete and professor of medicine
Bert McCracken (born 1982)American singer
Joan McCracken (1917–1961)American dancer and actress

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

Surnames like McCracken

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.