McGregor

McGregor is the 2,358th most common surname in the United States, shared by 15,078 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 19,800.

By the numbers

People: 15,078
Rank: 2,358th
How common: 1 in 19,800
Per 100,000: 5.0

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 McGregor described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 78.5%
Black, not Hispanic 13.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McGregor

Ewan McGregor (born 1971)Scottish actor
Conor McGregor (born 1988)Irish boxer and mixed martial arts fighter
Callum McGregor (born 1993)Scottish association football player
Douglas McGregor (1906–1964)American professor of management
Allan McGregor (born 1982)Scottish association football player
Ken McGregor (1929–2007)Australian tennis player
William McGregor (1846–1911)Scottish football administrator
Yvonne McGregor (born 1961)English cyclist

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

Surnames like McGregor

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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.