McKenney

McKenney is the 5,008th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,791 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 44,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,791
Rank: 5,008th
How common: 1 in 44,000
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Variant of McKinney.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.1%
Black, not Hispanic 11.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like McKenney

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.