The surname McElhinney
An Irish occupational surname, carried by 1,024 people in the United States.
4 syllables Soundex M245
Origin
Irish origin
Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Choinnigh (“son of the servant of (saint) Coinneach”).
McElhinney 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 1,024 people named McElhinney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 301,509 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 976.
Who is named McElhinney
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
98% of people named McElhinney identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 98%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like McElhinney
McElhinney 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 McElhinney come from?
- Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Choinnigh (“son of the servant of (saint) Coinneach”).
- How common is the surname McElhinney?
- 1,024 people in the United States had the surname McElhinney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 301,509 Americans. It ranked 24,446th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname McElhinney?
- In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named McElhinney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is McElhinney?
- McElhinney is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname McElhinney getting more or less common?
- More common. 976 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,024 in 2010, up 4.9%.