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The MCDAVID surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,996 9934 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 68 41311 0 1
Change since 1880 +2928 +31377 +N/A +10
Other Countries
Australia 11 82195 0 1
United Kingdom 98 24011 0 2
Top States for MCDAVID by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 290 1937 0.007 72
Texas 269 7104 0.001 13
Tennessee 257 3055 0.005 45
Florida 256 7554 0.002 16
California 166 14855 0.000 5
Top States for MCDAVID by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 290 1937 0.007 72
Mississippi 155 2394 0.005 54
Tennessee 257 3055 0.005 45
Alabama 164 3510 0.004 37
West Virginia 51 3740 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of MCDAVID

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MCDAVID 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 MCDAVID 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 MCDAVID in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 686 22.9
Mixed Race 60 2
White (Hispanic) 32 1.07
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.33
Asian/Pacific 8 0.27
White (Caucasian) 2,200 73.43

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

Meaning of MCDAVID in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCDAVID

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCDAVID.

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 MCDAVID

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