McDonnell

13,822 people in the United States were counted with the surname McDonnell in the 2020 census, making it the 2,546th most common in the country. That is about one person in 21,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,822
Rank: 2,546th
How common: 1 in 21,600
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Dhomhnuill (“son of Donald”). See also MacDonald.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called McDonnell

Mary McDonnell (born 1952)American actress
Bob McDonnell (born 1954)American attorney and politician
Alexander McDonnell (1798–1835)Irish chess master
John McDonnell (born 1951)British Labour politician
Charlotte McDonnell (born 1990)British vlogger and filmmaker
James McDonnell (1899–1980)American aerospace pioneer
Patrick McDonnell (born 1956)American illustrator
Joe McDonnell (1951–1981)Irish hunger striker and IRA volunteer

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

Surnames like McDonnell

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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.