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

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 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.

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.