How common is the surname McAlpin?

3,071 people in the United States had the surname McAlpin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 100,536 Americans. It ranked 10,466th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname McAlpin getting more or less common?

More common. 3,063 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,071 in 2010, up 0.3%.

The surname McAlpin

A surname, carried by 3,071 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M241

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). McAlpin is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

Variant of McAlpine.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,071 people named McAlpin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 100,536 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,063.

#10,466

rank among US surnames

3,071

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+0.3%

change since 2000 (was #9,740)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,459	Doria	3,074	100,438
#10,462	Stecker	3,073	100,470
#10,465	Janzen	3,072	100,503
#10,466	McAlpin	3,071	100,536
#10,468	Carreiro	3,070	100,569
#10,471	Cevallos	3,069	100,601

Who is named McAlpin

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

83% of people named McAlpin identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 83%
Black (not Hispanic) 11%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like McAlpin

McAlpin has the Soundex code M241, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M241.

Questions

Where does the surname McAlpin come from?: Variant of McAlpine.
How common is the surname McAlpin?: 3,071 people in the United States had the surname McAlpin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 100,536 Americans. It ranked 10,466th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname McAlpin?: In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named McAlpin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname McAlpin getting more or less common?: More common. 3,063 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,071 in 2010, up 0.3%.