Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname McGillicuddy

    An Irish occupational surname, carried by 1,086 people in the United States.

    5 syllables Soundex M242

    McGillicuddy: #23,414 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer McGillicuddy #23,414, 1,086 people McGillicuddy: #23,414 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez McGillicuddy #23,414, 1,086 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). McGillicuddy is more common than 85.6% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Chuda (“son of the servant of (Saint) Chuda”), a personal name of unexplained origin.

    McGillicuddy 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 1,086 people named McGillicuddy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 284,296 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,015.

    #23,414
    rank among US surnames
    1,086
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7%
    change since 2000 (was #23,372)

    Who is named McGillicuddy

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

    95% of people named McGillicuddy identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    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 McGillicuddy

    McGillicuddy has the Soundex code M242, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M242.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname McGillicuddy come from?
    Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Chuda (“son of the servant of (Saint) Chuda”), a personal name of unexplained origin.
    How common is the surname McGillicuddy?
    1,086 people in the United States had the surname McGillicuddy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 284,296 Americans. It ranked 23,414th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname McGillicuddy?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named McGillicuddy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is McGillicuddy?
    McGillicuddy is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname McGillicuddy getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,015 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,086 in 2010, up 7.0%.