McNeil

32,607 people in the United States were counted with the surname McNeil in the 2020 census, making it the 1,059th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,167.

By the numbers

People: 32,607
Rank: 1,059th
How common: 1 in 9,167
Per 100,000: 10.9

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Néill (“son of Níall”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 51.2%
Black, not Hispanic 40.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called McNeil

Dwight McNeil (born 1999)English association football player
Lori McNeil (born 1963)American tennis player
Claudia McNeil (1917–1993)American actress
Scott McNeil (born 1962)Canadian actor
Kate McNeil (born 1959)American actress
Catherine McNeil (born 1989)Australian model
Loretta McNeil (1907–1988)athletics competitor

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

Surnames like McNeil

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.