The MCVAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,811	4205	0.003	29
United States (1880 census)	68	41298	0	1
Change since 1880	+7743	+37093	+N/A	+28
Other Countries
Australia	83	16784	0.001	5
United Kingdom	471	9226	0.001	10

Top States for MCVAY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	629	2190	0.006	55
California	521	5381	0.002	15
Texas	494	4316	0.002	24
Alabama	457	1552	0.010	103
Florida	455	4435	0.003	28
Top States for MCVAY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	457	1552	0.010	103
Wyoming	44	1368	0.009	89
Arkansas	230	1552	0.009	86
Iowa	250	1401	0.009	85
Rhode Island	73	2214	0.007	70

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

Classification and Origin of MCVAY

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 MCVAY 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 MCVAY 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 MCVAY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	701	8.97
Mixed Race	111	1.42
White (Hispanic)	104	1.33
Asian/Pacific	38	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	29	0.37
White (Caucasian)	6,828	87.42

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

Similar names to MCVAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCVAY.

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.