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The MCELROY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 24,064 1349 0.009 89
United States (1880 census) 3,856 1592 0.008 77
Change since 1880 +20208 +243 +0.001 +12
Other Countries
Australia 472 3390 0.003 29
United Kingdom 2,154 2771 0.005 47
Top States for MCELROY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,127 1201 0.010 102
California 1,897 1736 0.006 56
Ohio 1,467 889 0.013 129
Florida 1,305 1577 0.008 82
Illinois 1,125 1097 0.009 91
Top States for MCELROY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 620 567 0.023 232
Rhode Island 237 575 0.023 226
Alabama 908 830 0.020 204
Mississippi 533 845 0.019 187
Oklahoma 610 748 0.018 177

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of MCELROY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MCELROY 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 MCELROY 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 MCELROY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 380 1.58
White (Hispanic) 378 1.57
Asian/Pacific 108 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 87 0.36
White (Caucasian) 19,545 81.22
Black/African American 3,564 14.81

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

Meaning of MCELROY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MCELROY.

Similar names to MCELROY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCELROY.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MCELROY

The following words are slight variants of MCELROY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.