McNamara

At the 2020 census, 25,856 Americans bore the surname McNamara — 1,334th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,600.

By the numbers

People: 25,856
Rank: 1,334th
How common: 1 in 11,600
Per 100,000: 8.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Mac Conmara.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called McNamara

Robert McNamara (1916–2009)American businessman and Secretary of Defense
Katherine McNamara (born 1995)American actress
Maggie McNamara (1928–1978)American actress
Shelley McNamara (born 1952)Irish architect
Jackie McNamara (born 1973)Scottish association football player and manager
William McNamara (born 1965)American film actor
Peter McNamara (1955–2019)Australian tennis player
Julianne McNamara (born 1965)American artistic gymnast and actress

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

Surnames like McNamara

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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.