McLeod

McLeod is the 1,132nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 30,359 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,845.

By the numbers

People: 30,359
Rank: 1,132nd
How common: 1 in 9,845
Per 100,000: 10.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From Scottish Gaelic MacLeòid (“son of Leòd”), from Old Norse Liótr (“the Ugly (one)”), from Old Norse ljótr (“ugly, scary”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.3%
Black, not Hispanic 24.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called McLeod

Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955)American educator and civil rights leader
Omar McLeod (born 1994)Jamaican athletics competitor
Erin McLeod (born 1983)Canadian soccer player
Sarah McLeod (born 1971)New Zealand film and television actress
Cynthia McLeod (born 1936)Surinamese novelist
Norman Z. McLeod (1895–1964)American film director
Rory McLeod (born 1971)English Jamaican snooker player
Candice McLeod (born 1996)Jamaican athlete

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

Surnames like McLeod

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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.