McCullough

McCullough is the 769th most common surname in the United States, shared by 43,929 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,804.

By the numbers

People: 43,929
Rank: 769th
How common: 1 in 6,804
Per 100,000: 14.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Cú Uladh.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.0%
Black, not Hispanic 20.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McCullough

Colleen McCullough (1937–2015)Australian author
David McCullough (1933–2022)American historian and author
Luke McCullough (born 1994)Northern Irish footballer
Henry McCullough (1943–2016)British musician
Chris McCullough (born 1995)American basketball player
Philo McCullough (1893–1981)American film actor
Kára McCullough (born 1991)Winner of Miss USA 2017
Wayne McCullough (born 1970)American boxer

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

Surnames like McCullough

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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.