McHenry

McHenry is the 3,175th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,099 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 26,900.

By the numbers

People: 11,099
Rank: 3,175th
How common: 1 in 26,900
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Éinrí, a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the personal name Henry.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.1%
Black, not Hispanic 16.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called McHenry

James McHenry (1753–1816)American politician
Patrick McHenry (born 1975)Member of the United States House of Representatives
Robert McHenry (born 1945)Encyclopedia editor

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

Surnames like McHenry

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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.