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The MCCOTTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 701 31271 0 3
United States (1880 census) 67 42000 0 1
Change since 1880 +634 +10729 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 71 19168 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MCCOTTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 175 4764 0.002 22
Michigan 76 15942 0.001 8
Maryland 41 12641 0.001 8
California 39 51530 0.000 1
Florida 39 37163 0.000 2
Top States for MCCOTTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 175 4764 0.002 22
Alaska 11 8918 0.002 18
Washington DC 6 9728 0.001 10
Maryland 41 12641 0.001 8
Michigan 76 15942 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of MCCOTTER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MCCOTTER surname.

Ethnic distribution of MCCOTTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 560 79.89
Black/African American 117 16.69
White (Hispanic) 12 1.71
Mixed Race 7 1
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.71
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0

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

MCCOTTER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MCCOTTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCCOTTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCCOTTER.

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 MCCOTTER

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