McGee

71,307 people in the United States were counted with the surname McGee in the 2020 census, making it the 453rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,192.

By the numbers

People: 71,307
Rank: 453rd
How common: 1 in 4,192
Per 100,000: 23.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish mac Aodha.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.1%
Black, not Hispanic 30.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called McGee

JaVale McGee (born 1988)American basketball player
Bradley McGee (born 1976)Australian cyclist
Jack McGee (born 1949)American character actor
American McGee (born 1972)American game designer
Vonetta McGee (1945–2010)American actress
William John McGee (1853–1912)American geologist & anthropologist
Pamela McGee (born 1962)American basketball player
Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825–1868)Canadian politician

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

Surnames like McGee

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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.