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    The surname McCourt

    A surname, carried by 4,206 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M263

    McCourt: #7,868 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer McCourt #7,868, 4,206 people McCourt: #7,868 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez McCourt #7,868, 4,206 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). McCourt is more common than 95.2% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of McCord.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,206 people named McCourt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 73,406 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,044.

    #7,868
    rank among US surnames
    4,206
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4%
    change since 2000 (was #7,583)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,859Leasure4,21073,336
    #7,863Moller4,20973,354
    #7,866Plourde4,20873,371
    #7,868McCourt4,20673,406
    #7,870Shoemake4,20573,423
    #7,873Crank4,20473,441
    #7,874Pendley4,20373,458

    Who is named McCourt

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

    96% of people named McCourt identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like McCourt

    McCourt has the Soundex code M263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M263.

    Questions

    Where does the surname McCourt come from?
    Variant of McCord.
    How common is the surname McCourt?
    4,206 people in the United States had the surname McCourt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,406 Americans. It ranked 7,868th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname McCourt?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named McCourt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname McCourt getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,044 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,206 in 2010, up 4.0%.