Skip to content

The surname McCully

A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 3,256 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M240

McCully: #9,919 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer McCully #9,919, 3,256 people McCully: #9,919 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez McCully #9,919, 3,256 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). McCully is more common than 93.9% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

From the Scottish Gaelic variant of McCullough.

One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,256 people named McCully in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 94,824 Americans. That is up 8.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,010.

#9,919
rank among US surnames
3,256
people in 2010
1.1
per 100,000 Americans
+8.2%
change since 2000 (was #9,892)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#9,910Everly3,26294,649
#9,912Mijares3,25994,736
#9,917Deem3,25894,765
#9,919McCully3,25694,824
#9,923Guay3,25594,853
#9,924Lagos3,25494,882
#9,925Krone3,25394,911

Who is named McCully

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

87% of people named McCully identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 87%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 7.3%
  • Two or more races 2.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like McCully

McCully has the Soundex code M240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M240.

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname McCully come from?
From the Scottish Gaelic variant of McCullough.
How common is the surname McCully?
3,256 people in the United States had the surname McCully in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 94,824 Americans. It ranked 9,919th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname McCully?
In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named McCully identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname McCully getting more or less common?
More common. 3,010 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,256 in 2010, up 8.2%.