McKenna

26,305 people in the United States were counted with the surname McKenna in the 2020 census, making it the 1,311th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,400.

By the numbers

People: 26,305
Rank: 1,311th
How common: 1 in 11,400
Per 100,000: 8.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From the Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, variant of McKinney.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called McKenna

Terence McKenna (1946–2000)American ethnobotanist and mystic
Scott McKenna (born 1996)Scottish association football player
Virginia McKenna (born 1931)British actress
Kevin McKenna (born 1980)Canadian soccer player
Mia McKenna-Bruce (born 1997)British actress
Kieran McKenna (born 1986)association football manager
Reginald McKenna (1863–1943)British banker and Liberal politician
Alex McKenna (born 1984)American actress

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

Surnames like McKenna

Also a first name

McKenna has been given to 44,491 American babies as a first name since 1972, peaking in 2002. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.