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McCurdy

McCurdy is the 2,932nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,005 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,900.

By the numbers

People
12,005
Rank
2,932nd
How common
1 in 24,900
Per 100,000
4.0

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Mhuircheartaigh (“son of Muircheartach”), a personal named based on muir (“sea”) + ceartach (“ruler”). Compare Moriarty.

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

Who bears the name

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

Notable people called McCurdy

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

Surnames like McCurdy

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.