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The surname McNees

A surname, carried by 1,422 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M252

McNees: #19,123 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer McNees #19,123, 1,422 people McNees: #19,123 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez McNees #19,123, 1,422 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). McNees is more common than 88.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,422 people named McNees in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 217,121 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,380.

#19,123
rank among US surnames
1,422
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+3%
change since 2000 (was #18,473)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#19,114Sereno1,423216,968
#19,123Winebarger1,422217,121
#19,131Byerley1,421217,273

Who is named McNees

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

95% of people named McNees identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like McNees

McNees has the Soundex code M252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M252.

Questions

How common is the surname McNees?
1,422 people in the United States had the surname McNees in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 217,121 Americans. It ranked 19,123rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname McNees?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named McNees identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
Is the surname McNees getting more or less common?
More common. 1,380 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,422 in 2010, up 3.0%.