McWhirter

McWhirter is the 11,264th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,683 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 111,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,683
Rank: 11,264th
How common: 1 in 111,000
Per 100,000: 0.90

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac an Chruiteir (“son of the harpist”), from cruitear (“harpist, fiddler”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Surnames like McWhirter

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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.