McRae

At the 2020 census, 17,483 Americans bore the surname McRae — 2,021st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,100.

By the numbers

People: 17,483
Rank: 2,021st
How common: 1 in 17,100
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Raith (“son of grace”), from mac + rath. Compare the Irish form McGrath.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 51.6%
Black, not Hispanic 39.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called McRae

Tate McRae (born 2003)Canadian singer, songwriter, and dancer
Carmen McRae (1920–1994)American jazz musician and actress
Graham McRae (1940–2021)New Zealand racing driver
Frank McRae (1944–2021)American actor
Alister McRae (born 1970)Scottish rally driver
Jordan McRae (born 1991)American basketball player
James McRae (born 1987)Australian rower
Lee McRae (born 1966)American sprinter

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

Surnames like McRae

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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.