McGhee

At the 2020 census, 23,091 Americans bore the surname McGhee — 1,508th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,900.

By the numbers

People: 23,091
Rank: 1,508th
How common: 1 in 12,900
Per 100,000: 7.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Variant of McGee.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 47.1%
White, not Hispanic 42.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called McGhee

Bart McGhee (1899–1979)American soccer player
Howard McGhee (1918–1987)American trumpeter
Mark McGhee (born 1957)Scottish footballer
Carla McGhee (born 1968)American basketball player

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

Surnames like McGhee

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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.