The MACLEAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,127	4566	0.003	26
United States (1880 census)	109	29783	0	2
Change since 1880	+7018	+25217	+N/A	+24
Other Countries
Australia	1,561	1044	0.01	95
United Kingdom	8,566	713	0.019	187

Top States for MACLEAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,002	2890	0.003	30
Massachusetts	992	803	0.016	156
Florida	576	3292	0.004	36
Michigan	407	2614	0.004	41
New York	355	5025	0.002	19
Top States for MACLEAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	236	994	0.019	185
New Hampshire	216	817	0.017	175
Massachusetts	992	803	0.016	156
Rhode Island	84	1770	0.008	80
Connecticut	197	2082	0.006	58

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

Classification and Origin of MACLEAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

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 MACLEAN 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 MACLEAN 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 MACLEAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	155	2.17
Mixed Race	86	1.21
Black/African American	59	0.83
Asian/Pacific	46	0.65
Native American/Alaskan	20	0.28
White (Caucasian)	6,761	94.86

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

Similar names to MACLEAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACLEAN.

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.