The MCDONALD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	176,094	127	0.065	653
United States (1880 census)	73	38773	0	1
Change since 1880	+176021	+38646	+N/A	+652
Other Countries
Australia	20,999	39	0.128	1,285
United Kingdom	34,317	135	0.075	747

Top States for MCDONALD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	14,528	147	0.070	697
California	13,165	207	0.039	389
Florida	11,369	118	0.071	711
New York	8,739	130	0.046	461
Michigan	7,872	74	0.079	792
Top States for MCDONALD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	4,290	69	0.151	1,508
Alabama	5,187	98	0.117	1,166
Maine	1,174	150	0.092	921
Montana	829	67	0.092	919
Oklahoma	3,029	110	0.088	878

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

Classification and Origin of MCDONALD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

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 MCDONALD 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 MCDONALD 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 MCDONALD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	757	0.43
White (Caucasian)	139,449	79.19
Black/African American	28,633	16.26
White (Hispanic)	3,258	1.85
Mixed Race	2,659	1.51
Native American/Alaskan	1,338	0.76

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

Similar names to MCDONALD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCDONALD.

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.