The MACMILLAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,553	5725	0.002	21
United States (1880 census)	31	62717	0	1
Change since 1880	+5522	+56992	+N/A	+20
Other Countries
Australia	766	2116	0.005	47
United Kingdom	4,355	1449	0.009	95

Top States for MACMILLAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	630	4409	0.002	19
Massachusetts	520	1661	0.008	82
Florida	466	4147	0.003	29
New York	332	5574	0.002	17
New Jersey	294	3117	0.003	35
Top States for MACMILLAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	116	1625	0.009	94
Maine	114	1908	0.009	89
Massachusetts	520	1661	0.008	82
Delaware	42	3112	0.005	54
Montana	39	3221	0.004	43

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

Classification and Origin of MACMILLAN

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 MACMILLAN 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 MACMILLAN 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 MACMILLAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	89	1.6
White (Hispanic)	78	1.4
Mixed Race	67	1.21
Asian/Pacific	27	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	17	0.31
White (Caucasian)	5,275	94.99

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

Similar names to MACMILLAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACMILLAN.

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.