McQueen

McQueen is the 1,825th most common surname in the United States, shared by 19,265 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,500.

By the numbers

People: 19,265
Rank: 1,825th
How common: 1 in 15,500
Per 100,000: 6.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, from Mac Shuibhne (“son of Suibhne”), a byname meaning "pleasant." See McSweeney.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 55.4%
Black, not Hispanic 35.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called McQueen

Steve McQueen (1930–1980)American actor
Alexander McQueen (1969–2010)British fashion designer
Steve McQueen (born 1969)British film director and video artist
Chad McQueen (1960–2024)American actor and racecar driver
Steven R. McQueen (born 1988)American actor
Gordon McQueen (1952–2023)Scottish association football player and manager
Sam McQueen (born 1995)English association football player
Butterfly McQueen (1911–1995)American actress

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

Surnames like McQueen

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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.