The MCGOUGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,967	6317	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	66	42111	0	1
Change since 1880	+4901	+35794	+N/A	+17
Other Countries
Australia	206	7330	0.001	13
United Kingdom	955	5460	0.002	21

Top States for MCGOUGH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	577	1221	0.013	130
Pennsylvania	496	2988	0.004	40
Texas	414	4870	0.002	20
California	304	8499	0.001	9
Florida	284	6624	0.002	18
Top States for MCGOUGH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	577	1221	0.013	130
Arkansas	125	2686	0.005	47
Pennsylvania	496	2988	0.004	40
Montana	34	3753	0.004	38
Nevada	62	3665	0.003	31

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

Classification and Origin of MCGOUGH

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 MCGOUGH 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 MCGOUGH 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 MCGOUGH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	216	4.35
White (Hispanic)	89	1.79
Mixed Race	73	1.47
Asian/Pacific	30	0.6
Native American/Alaskan	20	0.4
White (Caucasian)	4,539	91.38

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

Similar names to MCGOUGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCGOUGH.

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.