McFadden

30,612 people in the United States were counted with the surname McFadden in the 2020 census, making it the 1,125th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,764.

By the numbers

People: 30,612
Rank: 1,125th
How common: 1 in 9,764
Per 100,000: 10.2

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic MacPhaidein and Irish Mac Pháidín.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 58.9%
Black, not Hispanic 33.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called McFadden

Daniel McFadden (born 1937)American economist
Gates McFadden (born 1949)American actress and choreographer
Brian McFadden (born 1980)Irish singer
James McFadden (born 1983)Scottish association football player
Tatyana McFadden (born 1989)American para athletics competitor
Freida McFadden (born 1980)American thriller author and practicing physician
Patricia McFadden (born 1952)African feminist and writer
Pat McFadden (born 1965)British politician

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

Surnames like McFadden

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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.