How common is the surname Magee?

27,720 people in the United States had the surname Magee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 11,138 Americans. It ranked 1,269th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Magee?

Mike Magee, American soccer player, followed by David Magee.

Where is the surname Magee most common?

Wikidata records people named Magee in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.

How do you pronounce Magee?

Magee is /məˈɡi/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Magee getting more or less common?

More common. 26,031 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 27,720 in 2010, up 6.5%.

The surname Magee

A surname, carried by 27,720 people in the United States.

Pronounced /məˈɡi/ 2 syllables Soundex M200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Magee is more common than 99.2% of them.

Origin

Variant of McGee.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 27,720 people named Magee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 11,138 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 26,031.

#1,269

rank among US surnames

27,720

people in 2010

9.4

per 100,000 Americans

+6.5%

change since 2000 (was #1,237)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,260	Ferreira	27,898	11,067
#1,261	Lockhart	27,883	11,073
#1,262	Boggs	27,880	11,074
#1,263	Pryor	27,805	11,104
#1,264	Doherty	27,787	11,111
#1,265	Sargent	27,786	11,112
#1,266	Kenney	27,759	11,122

Who is named Magee

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

65% of people named Magee identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 65%
Black (not Hispanic) 31%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Magees

8 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Mike Magee
American soccer player, born 1984
David Magee
American screenwriter and actor, born 1962
Kevin Magee
American basketball player (1959–2003)
Samantha Magee
American rower, born 1983
Kevin Magee
Australian motorcycle racer, born 1962
Brian Magee
British boxer, born 1975
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Aviator and poet (1922-1941)
Carl Magee
American lawyer and publisher, 1872–1946

Notable Magees come mostly from the United States (6), Australia (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Magee

Magee has the Soundex code M200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M200.

Questions

Where does the surname Magee come from?: Variant of McGee.
How common is the surname Magee?: 27,720 people in the United States had the surname Magee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 11,138 Americans. It ranked 1,269th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Magee?: In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Magee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Magee?: Mike Magee, American soccer player, followed by David Magee.
Where is the surname Magee most common?: Wikidata records people named Magee in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
How do you pronounce Magee?: Magee is /məˈɡi/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Magee getting more or less common?: More common. 26,031 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 27,720 in 2010, up 6.5%.