The MCGOWAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	31,669	1010	0.012	117
United States (1880 census)	71	39525	0	1
Change since 1880	+31598	+38515	+N/A	+116
Other Countries
Australia	1,857	878	0.011	114
United Kingdom	9,725	614	0.021	212

Top States for MCGOWAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,489	672	0.013	131
California	2,413	1358	0.007	71
Pennsylvania	2,067	588	0.017	168
Florida	1,967	1036	0.012	123
Texas	1,854	1343	0.009	89
Top States for MCGOWAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	842	523	0.030	296
Maine	256	995	0.020	201
Delaware	152	900	0.019	194
Rhode Island	196	734	0.019	187
New Jersey	1,515	499	0.018	180

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

Classification and Origin of MCGOWAN

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 MCGOWAN 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 MCGOWAN 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 MCGOWAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	418	1.32
Mixed Race	405	1.28
Native American/Alaskan	127	0.4
Asian/Pacific	111	0.35
White (Caucasian)	24,689	77.96
Black/African American	5,919	18.69

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

Similar names to MCGOWAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCGOWAN.

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.