McGinley

McGinley is the 5,140th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,581 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 45,400.

By the numbers

People: 6,581
Rank: 5,140th
How common: 1 in 45,400
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhionnghaile (“son of Fionnghal”), a personal name composed of the elements fionn (“fair”) + gal (“valor”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called McGinley

John C. McGinley (born 1959)American actor
Ted McGinley (born 1958)American actor

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

Surnames like McGinley

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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.