McIntosh

40,973 people in the United States were counted with the surname McIntosh in the 2020 census, making it the 825th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,295.

By the numbers

People: 40,973
Rank: 825th
How common: 1 in 7,295
Per 100,000: 13.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac an Tòisiche.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.1%
Black, not Hispanic 23.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called McIntosh

Summer McIntosh (born 2006)Canadian swimmer
Pollyanna McIntosh (born 1979)Scottish-born actress
Troy McIntosh (born 1973)male sprinter from The Bahamas
James McIntosh (1930–2018)American rower
Neve McIntosh (born 1972)British actress
Aaron McIntosh (born 1972)sailor

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

Surnames like McIntosh

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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.