McDermott

At the 2020 census, 29,807 Americans bore the surname McDermott — 1,157th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,000.

By the numbers

People: 29,807
Rank: 1,157th
How common: 1 in 10,000
Per 100,000: 10.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Diarmada (“son of Diarmaid”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called McDermott

Dylan McDermott (born 1961)American actor
Terry McDermott (born 1951)English footballer and manager
Charlie McDermott (born 1990)American actor
Doug McDermott (born 1992)American basketball player
Terry McDermott (1940–2023)American speed skater
Brian McDermott (born 1961)association football player and manager
Dean McDermott (born 1966)Canadian actor
Don McDermott (1929–2020)speed skater

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

Surnames like McDermott

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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.