The MCELROY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	24,064	1349	0.009	89
United States (1880 census)	3,856	1592	0.008	77
Change since 1880	+20208	+243	+0.001	+12
Other Countries
Australia	472	3390	0.003	29
United Kingdom	2,154	2771	0.005	47

Top States for MCELROY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,127	1201	0.010	102
California	1,897	1736	0.006	56
Ohio	1,467	889	0.013	129
Florida	1,305	1577	0.008	82
Illinois	1,125	1097	0.009	91
Top States for MCELROY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	620	567	0.023	232
Rhode Island	237	575	0.023	226
Alabama	908	830	0.020	204
Mississippi	533	845	0.019	187
Oklahoma	610	748	0.018	177

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

Classification and Origin of MCELROY

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 MCELROY 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 MCELROY 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 MCELROY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	380	1.58
White (Hispanic)	378	1.57
Asian/Pacific	108	0.45
Native American/Alaskan	87	0.36
White (Caucasian)	19,545	81.22
Black/African American	3,564	14.81

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

Similar names to MCELROY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCELROY.

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.