McLean

At the 2020 census, 41,538 Americans bore the surname McLean — 809th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,196.

By the numbers

People: 41,538
Rank: 809th
How common: 1 in 7,196
Per 100,000: 13.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 64.0%
Black, not Hispanic 26.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called McLean

Don McLean (born 1945)American singer-songwriter
A. J. McLean (born 1978)American pop singer
Kenny McLean (born 1992)Scottish association football player
Michelle McLean (born 1972)Namibian model
Malcom McLean (1913–2001)American businessman
Jackie McLean (1931–2006)American jazz saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator
John McLean (1878–1955)American athlete and coach
Willie McLean (1904–1977)American soccer player

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

Surnames like McLean

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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.