McShane

McShane is the 6,537th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,990 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 59,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,990
Rank: 6,537th
How common: 1 in 59,900
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Seáin (“son of Seán”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.1%
Black, not Hispanic 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called McShane

Ian McShane (born 1942)English actor
Paul McShane (born 1986)Irish association football player
Jamie McShane (born 1966)American actor
Luke McShane (born 1984)British chess player
Mike McShane (born 1955)American actor

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

Surnames like McShane

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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.