McMillan

McMillan is the 880th most common surname in the United States, shared by 38,777 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,708.

By the numbers

People: 38,777
Rank: 880th
How common: 1 in 7,708
Per 100,000: 13.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Maoláin (“son of Maolán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of maol (“bald, tonsured”). Cognate with Irish Mac Maoláin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.9%
Black, not Hispanic 24.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called McMillan

Edwin McMillan (1907–1991)American physicist
Frew McMillan (born 1942)South African tennis player
Nate McMillan (born 1964)American basketball player-coach
Terry McMillan (born 1951)American author
Robert S. McMillan (born 1950)American astronomer
Ian McMillan (1931–2024)Scottish footballer
Kenneth McMillan (1932–1989)American actor
William McMillan (1929–2000)American sport shooter

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

Surnames like McMillan

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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.