McElroy

McElroy is the 1,479th most common surname in the United States, shared by 23,509 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 12,700.

By the numbers

People: 23,509
Rank: 1,479th
How common: 1 in 12,700
Per 100,000: 7.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Ruaidh (“son of the red-haired lad”). See also gillaroo.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.7%
Black, not Hispanic 15.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McElroy

Mary Arthur McElroy (1841–1917)First Lady of the United States
Robert W. McElroy (born 1954)Catholic cardinal and archbishop
Wendy McElroy (born 1951)Canadian individualist anarchist and individualist feminist
Neil H. McElroy (1904–1972)American businessman

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

Surnames like McElroy

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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.