McGinty

At the 2020 census, 5,896 Americans bore the surname McGinty — 5,672nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 50,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,896
Rank: 5,672nd
How common: 1 in 50,700
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhionnachtaigh (“son of Fionnachtach”), a variant of the personal name Fionnshneachtach, which is composed of the elements fionn (“fair”) and sneachtach (“snowy”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.0%
Black, not Hispanic 6.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called McGinty

Damian McGinty (born 1992)Northern Irish actor and singer

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

Surnames like McGinty

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.