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The MCQUAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,739 15464 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 73 38703 0 1
Change since 1880 +1666 +23239 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 24 44839 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MCQUAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 199 3330 0.004 38
Arkansas 176 2243 0.007 66
Florida 173 11571 0.001 11
Texas 123 14248 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 112 14483 0.001 9
Top States for MCQUAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 176 2243 0.007 66
Maryland 199 3330 0.004 38
North Dakota 12 10190 0.002 19
South Dakota 13 10912 0.002 17
Missouri 87 8862 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of MCQUAY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MCQUAY surname.

Ethnic distribution of MCQUAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 502 28.87
Mixed Race 31 1.78
White (Hispanic) 19 1.09
White (Caucasian) 1,172 67.4
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

MCQUAY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MCQUAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MCQUAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCQUAY.

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 MCQUAY

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