McGinnis

At the 2020 census, 25,512 Americans bore the surname McGinnis — 1,346th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,700.

By the numbers

People: 25,512
Rank: 1,346th
How common: 1 in 11,700
Per 100,000: 8.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized from Irish Mac Aonghusa and Scottish Gaelic MacAonghais. Compare English McGuiness.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.5%
Black, not Hispanic 7.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McGinnis

George McGinnis (1950–2023)American basketball player
Charles McGinnis (1906–1995)American pole vaulter

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

Surnames like McGinnis

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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.