The MC'DERMOTT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	29,440	1086	0.011	109
United States (1880 census)	71	39527	0	1
Change since 1880	+29369	+38441	+N/A	+108
Other Countries
Australia	2,457	653	0.015	150
United Kingdom	10,961	544	0.024	239

Top States for MC'DERMOTT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	3,161	469	0.017	167
Pennsylvania	2,466	440	0.020	201
California	2,312	1344	0.007	68
Massachusetts	1,951	365	0.031	307
New Jersey	1,858	365	0.022	221
Top States for MC'DERMOTT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,951	365	0.031	307
Iowa	846	280	0.029	289
Rhode Island	291	394	0.028	278
Connecticut	834	373	0.024	245
Delaware	178	706	0.023	227

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

Classification and Origin of MC'DERMOTT

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 MC'DERMOTT 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 MC'DERMOTT 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 MC'DERMOTT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	686	2.33
White (Hispanic)	462	1.57
Mixed Race	312	1.06
Asian/Pacific	162	0.55
Native American/Alaskan	65	0.22
White (Caucasian)	27,753	94.27

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

Similar names to MC'DERMOTT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MC'DERMOTT.

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.