McCrae

At the 2020 census, 2,716 Americans bore the surname McCrae — 11,150th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 110,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,716
Rank: 11,150th
How common: 1 in 110,000
Per 100,000: 0.91

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Variant of McRae.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 59.9%
White, not Hispanic 29.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called McCrae

John McCrae (1872–1918)Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I
James McCrae (1894–1974)Scottish footballer and manager
George McCrae (born 1944)American musician

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

Surnames like McCrae

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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.