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    The surname McConkey

    An Irish surname, carried by 2,688 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex M252

    McConkey: #11,663 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer McConkey #11,663, 2,688 people McConkey: #11,663 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez McConkey #11,663, 2,688 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). McConkey is more common than 92.8% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Variant of McConaghy.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,688 people named McConkey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,861 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,440.

    #11,663
    rank among US surnames
    2,688
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.2%
    change since 2000 (was #11,762)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,659DiSanto2,689114,818
    #11,663Slover2,688114,861
    #11,669Sher2,687114,903
    #11,672Luongo2,686114,946

    Who is named McConkey

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

    94% of people named McConkey identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like McConkey

    McConkey has the Soundex code M252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M252.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname McConkey come from?
    Variant of McConaghy.
    How common is the surname McConkey?
    2,688 people in the United States had the surname McConkey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,861 Americans. It ranked 11,663rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname McConkey?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named McConkey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname McConkey getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,440 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,688 in 2010, up 10%.