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The MCALLISTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 28,586 1122 0.011 106
United States (1880 census) 3,062 1982 0.006 61
Change since 1880 +25524 +860 +0.005 +45
Other Countries
Australia 1,365 1206 0.008 84
United Kingdom 8,751 690 0.019 191
Top States for MCALLISTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,029 1619 0.006 60
New York 1,727 1037 0.009 91
Florida 1,590 1301 0.010 99
Pennsylvania 1,487 901 0.012 121
North Carolina 1,442 812 0.018 179
Top States for MCALLISTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 292 251 0.048 480
Maine 444 548 0.035 348
Delaware 174 770 0.022 222
Alaska 131 556 0.021 209
South Carolina 805 806 0.020 201

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

Classification and Origin of MCALLISTER

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 MCALLISTER 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 MCALLISTER 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 MCALLISTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 469 1.64
Mixed Race 377 1.32
Native American/Alaskan 131 0.46
Asian/Pacific 120 0.42
White (Caucasian) 23,026 80.55
Black/African American 4,462 15.61

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

Meaning of MCALLISTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCALLISTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCALLISTER.

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 MCALLISTER

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