McGill

26,057 people in the United States were counted with the surname McGill in the 2020 census, making it the 1,326th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,500.

By the numbers

People: 26,057
Rank: 1,326th
How common: 1 in 11,500
Per 100,000: 8.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.2%
Black, not Hispanic 26.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called McGill

Bruce McGill (born 1950)American actor
Everett McGill (born 1945)American actor
Anthony McGill (born 1991)Scottish snooker player
Tom McGill (born 2000)Canadian-English association football player
James McGill (1744–1813)founder of McGill University, Montreal
Bill McGill (1939–2014)American basketball player
Tyler McGill (born 1987)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion
Frances Gertrude McGill (1877–1959)Canadian forensic pathologist

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

Surnames like McGill

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.