McGrath

At the 2020 census, 33,611 Americans bore the surname McGrath — 1,019th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,893.

By the numbers

People: 33,611
Rank: 1,019th
How common: 1 in 8,893
Per 100,000: 11.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Craith, perhaps a variant of Mac Raith (“son of Rath”), a byname from rath (“abundance, prosperity”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called McGrath

Katie McGrath (born 1983)Irish actress
Bob McGrath (1932–2022)American actor
Tom McGrath (born 1964)American voice actor, animator and film director
Paul McGrath (born 1959)Irish footballer
Matt McGrath (1877–1941)Olympic athletic competitor
Alister McGrath (born 1953)Northern Irish theologian, Anglican priest, and academic
Douglas McGrath (1958–2022)American actor and director
Glenn McGrath (born 1970)Australian cricketer

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

Surnames like McGrath

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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.