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The MCCAIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,933 1842 0.007 66
United States (1880 census) 68 41284 0 1
Change since 1880 +17865 +39442 +N/A +65
Other Countries
Australia 43 28824 0 3
United Kingdom 186 17189 0 4
Top States for MCCAIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,852 1378 0.009 89
Alabama 1,316 583 0.030 296
California 1,122 2863 0.003 33
North Carolina 1,102 1131 0.014 137
Florida 812 2610 0.005 51
Top States for MCCAIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,316 583 0.030 296
Mississippi 721 626 0.025 253
Arkansas 471 760 0.018 176
Louisiana 720 936 0.016 161
Washington DC 83 807 0.015 145

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

Classification and Origin of MCCAIN

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 MCCAIN 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 MCCAIN 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 MCCAIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 328 1.83
Mixed Race 314 1.75
Native American/Alaskan 81 0.45
Asian/Pacific 65 0.36
White (Caucasian) 11,974 66.77
Black/African American 5,174 28.85

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

Meaning of MCCAIN in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCCAIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCCAIN.

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 MCCAIN

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