The surname McElhannon
An Irish occupational surname, carried by 818 people in the United States.
4 syllables Soundex M245
Origin
Irish origin
Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Chonáin (“son of the servant of Saint Conan”).
McElhannon is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
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 818 people named McElhannon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 377,440 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 777.
Who is named McElhannon
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named McElhannon identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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McElhannon has the Soundex code M245, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M245.
Other Irish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname McElhannon come from?
- Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Chonáin (“son of the servant of Saint Conan”).
- How common is the surname McElhannon?
- 818 people in the United States had the surname McElhannon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 377,440 Americans. It ranked 29,019th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname McElhannon?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named McElhannon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is McElhannon?
- McElhannon is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname McElhannon getting more or less common?
- More common. 777 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 818 in 2010, up 5.3%.