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The MCALISTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,433 2883 0.004 42
United States (1880 census) 1,923 3075 0.004 38
Change since 1880 +9510 +192 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 1,121 1477 0.007 69
United Kingdom 1,681 3414 0.004 37
Top States for MCALISTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,384 454 0.034 345
Texas 1,257 1933 0.006 60
California 982 3171 0.003 29
North Carolina 628 1883 0.008 78
Tennessee 566 1526 0.010 99
Top States for MCALISTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,384 454 0.034 345
Oklahoma 473 1007 0.014 137
Arkansas 318 1136 0.012 119
Tennessee 566 1526 0.010 99
North Carolina 628 1883 0.008 78

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

Classification and Origin of MCALISTER

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 MCALISTER 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 MCALISTER 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 MCALISTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 176 1.54
Mixed Race 171 1.5
Native American/Alaskan 85 0.74
Asian/Pacific 41 0.36
White (Caucasian) 9,683 84.69
Black/African American 1,277 11.17

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

Meaning of MCALISTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCALISTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCALISTER.

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 MCALISTER

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