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    The surname McRee

    A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 1,810 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M260

    McRee: #16,025 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer McRee #16,025, 1,810 people McRee: #16,025 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez McRee #16,025, 1,810 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). McRee is more common than 90.1% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish Gaelic origin

    Variant of McRae.

    One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,810 people named McRee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 170,578 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,692.

    #16,025
    rank among US surnames
    1,810
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7%
    change since 2000 (was #15,805)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,018Provencio1,812170,389
    #16,022Grayer1,811170,483
    #16,025Coryell1,810170,578
    #16,031Buda1,809170,672

    Who is named McRee

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

    88% of people named McRee identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like McRee

    McRee has the Soundex code M260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M260.

    Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

    All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname McRee come from?
    Variant of McRae.
    How common is the surname McRee?
    1,810 people in the United States had the surname McRee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 170,578 Americans. It ranked 16,025th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname McRee?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named McRee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname McRee getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,692 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,810 in 2010, up 7.0%.