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The surname McVicker

A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 3,738 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M212

McVicker: #8,770 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer McVicker #8,770, 3,738 people McVicker: #8,770 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez McVicker #8,770, 3,738 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). McVicker is more common than 94.6% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

Variant of McVicar.

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 3,738 people named McVicker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 82,596 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,661.

#8,770
rank among US surnames
3,738
people in 2010
1.3
per 100,000 Americans
+2.1%
change since 2000 (was #8,320)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#8,763Henn3,74382,486
#8,765Sullins3,74182,530
#8,768Wolfson3,74082,552
#8,770Hine3,73882,596
#8,772Partain3,73782,619
#8,773Peer3,73682,641

Who is named McVicker

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

94% of people named McVicker identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Two or more races 1.3%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like McVicker

McVicker has the Soundex code M212, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M212.

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname McVicker come from?
Variant of McVicar.
How common is the surname McVicker?
3,738 people in the United States had the surname McVicker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,596 Americans. It ranked 8,770th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname McVicker?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named McVicker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname McVicker getting more or less common?
More common. 3,661 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,738 in 2010, up 2.1%.