The MACKEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	29,718	1075	0.011	110
United States (1880 census)	7,723	777	0.015	154
Change since 1880	+21995	-298	-0.004	-44
Other Countries
Australia	936	1762	0.006	57
United Kingdom	1,842	3166	0.004	40

Top States for MACKEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,272	1148	0.011	109
California	2,269	1502	0.007	67
New York	1,871	985	0.010	99
Florida	1,819	1177	0.011	114
Ohio	1,718	779	0.015	151
Top States for MACKEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	858	545	0.025	249
South Carolina	895	748	0.022	223
Wyoming	89	614	0.018	180
New Hampshire	211	942	0.017	171
Missouri	877	776	0.016	157

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MACKEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MACKEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MACKEY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MACKEY by picking someone at random in Oklahoma than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MACKEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MACKEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MACKEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MACKEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	502	1.69
White (Hispanic)	475	1.6
Native American/Alaskan	181	0.61
Asian/Pacific	113	0.38
White (Caucasian)	21,471	72.25
Black/African American	6,972	23.46

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MACKEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MACKEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACKEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.