McHugh

McHugh is the 1,975th most common surname in the United States, shared by 17,833 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,800.

By the numbers

People: 17,833
Rank: 1,975th
How common: 1 in 16,800
Per 100,000: 6.0

Where the name comes from

Variant of McCoy.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called McHugh

Lia McHugh (born 2005)American actress
Jimmy McHugh (1894–1969)American composer, songwriter
Frank McHugh (1898–1981)American actor
Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959)American writer

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

Surnames like McHugh

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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.