McCreary

At the 2020 census, 7,974 Americans bore the surname McCreary — 4,307th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 37,500.

By the numbers

People: 7,974
Rank: 4,307th
How common: 1 in 37,500
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Ruaidhrí (“son of Ruaidhrí”), a personal name composed of the elements ruadh (“red”) + rí (“king”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.8%
Black, not Hispanic 19.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called McCreary

Bear McCreary (born 1979)American composer
Kelly McCreary (born 1981)American actress
James B. McCreary (1838–1918)Governor of Kentucky

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

Surnames like McCreary

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.