McKim

McKim is the 8,798th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,577 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 83,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,577
Rank: 8,798th
How common: 1 in 83,600
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Shim (“son of Sim”), a pet form of the personal name Simon.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Black, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called McKim

Josephine McKim (1910–1992)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder
Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909)American Beaux-Arts architect

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

Surnames like McKim

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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.