McEvoy

At the 2020 census, 5,744 Americans bore the surname McEvoy — 5,803rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 52,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,744
Rank: 5,803rd
How common: 1 in 52,000
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Giolla Bhuidhe (“son of the yellow-haired lad”) and Irish Mac Fhíodhbhuidhe, a patronymic originally from fíodhbhadhach (“woodman”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called McEvoy

Cameron McEvoy (born 1994)Australian swimmer
Frederick McEvoy (1907–1951)Sportsman, socialite
Tom McEvoy (born 1944)American poker player

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

Surnames like McEvoy

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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.