The surname McKinstry
An Irish surname, carried by 3,015 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex M252
Origin
Irish origin
Anglicized form of Irish Mac an Aistrigh.
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 3,015 people named McKinstry in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,403 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,878.
Who is named McKinstry
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
73% of people named McKinstry identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 73%
- Black (not Hispanic) 23%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
McKinstry has the Soundex code M252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M252.
Other Irish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname McKinstry come from?
- Anglicized form of Irish Mac an Aistrigh.
- How common is the surname McKinstry?
- 3,015 people in the United States had the surname McKinstry in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,403 Americans. It ranked 10,620th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname McKinstry?
- In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named McKinstry identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname McKinstry getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,878 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,015 in 2010, up 4.8%.