McGehee

At the 2020 census, 5,426 Americans bore the surname McGehee — 6,082nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 55,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,426
Rank: 6,082nd
How common: 1 in 55,100
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Variant of McGaughey.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.3%
Black, not Hispanic 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Surnames like McGehee

Try it on yourself

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.