The MCSHANE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,841	6470	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	71	39711	0	1
Change since 1880	+4770	+33241	+N/A	+17
Other Countries
Australia	725	2229	0.004	44
United Kingdom	3,420	1829	0.007	74

Top States for MCSHANE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	504	2849	0.004	41
New York	423	4283	0.002	22
California	347	7354	0.001	10
Florida	318	5809	0.002	20
Illinois	318	3808	0.003	26
Top States for MCSHANE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	91	1651	0.009	87
Vermont	26	3564	0.004	43
Pennsylvania	504	2849	0.004	41
Massachusetts	257	3142	0.004	40
New Jersey	284	3183	0.003	34

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

Classification and Origin of MCSHANE

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 MCSHANE 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 MCSHANE 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 MCSHANE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	221	4.57
Mixed Race	106	2.19
Asian/Pacific	71	1.47
White (Hispanic)	46	0.95
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.19
White (Caucasian)	4,388	90.64

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

Similar names to MCSHANE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCSHANE.

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.