McNaughton

McNaughton is the 7,529th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,258 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 70,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,258
Rank: 7,529th
How common: 1 in 70,200
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

From the Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, Anglicized form of Mac Neachtain, a patronymic surname from the personal name Neachtan, a name of the god of water in Irish mythology, of uncertain ultimate origin; see Nechtan. Compare McCracken.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called McNaughton

Duncan McNaughton (1910–1998)athletics competitor
John McNaughton (born 1950)American film and television director
Andrew McNaughton (1887–1966)Canadian scientist, diplomat, and general

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

Surnames like McNaughton

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.