McNally

McNally is the 2,263rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 15,658 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 19,100.

By the numbers

People: 15,658
Rank: 2,263rd
How common: 1 in 19,100
Per 100,000: 5.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Con Allaidh derived from cú allaid (“wild hound, wild dog”), or in Connacht Irish Mac an Fhailghigh derived from failgheach (“poor man”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called McNally

Kevin McNally (born 1956)English actor
Caty McNally (born 2001)US American tennis player
Terrence McNally (1938–2020)American playwright
Stephen McNally (1911–1994)American actor
John McNally (1932–2022)Irish boxer
Bernard McNally (born 1963)Northern Irish footballer and manager

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

Surnames like McNally

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.