# McCracken (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/mccracken/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 19,287 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,862 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 16,008 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.6% (18,975 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Reachtain, a variant of Mac Neachtain (see McNaughton).

## Who carries it

Share of people named McCracken in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named McCracken in the United States.

## People named McCracken

- Craig McCracken, American cartoonist and animator (born 1971)
- Josiah McCracken, American football player, athlete and professor of medicine (1874-1962)
- Bert McCracken, American singer
- Joan McCracken, American dancer and actress (1917–1961)
- James McCracken, American opera singer (1926–1988)
- Hugh McCracken, American session musician (1942-2013)
- Paul McCracken, American economist (1915-2012)
- Elizabeth McCracken, American writer

## Similar surnames

McCorkle, McCroskey, McCreight, McCarrick, McCrystal, McGregor, Majors, MacGregor, Mazariegos, Mijares, Mazurek, Mukherjee.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.