McGarvey

At the 2020 census, 3,899 Americans bore the surname McGarvey — 8,128th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 76,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,899
Rank: 8,128th
How common: 1 in 76,700
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Gairbhshíth (“son of Gairbhshíth”), a personal name composed of the elements garbh (“rough”) + síth (“peace”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called McGarvey

Seamus McGarvey (born 1967)Irish cinematographer
Frank McGarvey (1956–2023)Scottish footballer and manager

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

Surnames like McGarvey

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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.