McElveen

At the 2020 census, 3,452 Americans bore the surname McElveen — 9,092nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 86,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,452
Rank: 9,092nd
How common: 1 in 86,600
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Mhín (“son of the gentle lad”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.2%
Black, not Hispanic 34.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.2%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Surnames like McElveen

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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.