McElrath

At the 2020 census, 3,035 Americans bore the surname McElrath — 10,121st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 98,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,035
Rank: 10,121st
How common: 1 in 98,500
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Riabhaigh (“son of the brindled lad”), the same source of Gallery.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 54.2%
Black, not Hispanic 36.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like McElrath

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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.