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    The surname McClatchey

    A patronymic surname, carried by 798 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex M243

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). McClatchey is more common than 81.8% of them.

    Origin

    Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Northern Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Èitigh (“son of the ugly lad”), from gille (“boy, lad”) and èitigh (“unseemly, ugly”).

    McClatchey is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 798 people named McClatchey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 386,899 Americans. That is down 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 804.

    #29,550
    rank among US surnames
    798
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.7%
    change since 2000 (was #28,049)

    Who is named McClatchey

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

    76% of people named McClatchey identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 76%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Two or more races 3.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like McClatchey

    McClatchey has the Soundex code M243, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M243.

    Questions

    Where does the surname McClatchey come from?
    Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Northern Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Èitigh (“son of the ugly lad”), from gille (“boy, lad”) and èitigh (“unseemly, ugly”).
    How common is the surname McClatchey?
    798 people in the United States had the surname McClatchey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 386,899 Americans. It ranked 29,550th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname McClatchey?
    In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named McClatchey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is McClatchey?
    McClatchey is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
    Is the surname McClatchey getting more or less common?
    Less common. 804 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 798 in 2010, down 0.7%.