McHale

McHale is the 5,536th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,072 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,200.

By the numbers

People: 6,072
Rank: 5,536th
How common: 1 in 49,200
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish mac céile (“son of the companion”) or alternatively, from Irish Mac Haol (“son of Haol”), a Gaelicized form of Howell.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called McHale

Joel McHale (born 1971)American actor and comedian
Kevin McHale (born 1957)American basketball player
Christina McHale (born 1992)American female tennis player
Kevin McHale (born 1988)American actor and singer
Evelyn McHale (1923–1947)Subject of iconic suicide photo
Patrick McHale (born 1983)writer, storyboard artist, animator, filmmaker

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

Surnames like McHale

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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.