McGuirk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Oirc, patronymic from the personal name Ore, from ore ‘pig’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məˈɡɝk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McGuirk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GDGrenada1 in 113K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 177K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
1,884 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Oirc, patronymic from the personal name Ore, from ore ‘pig’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
McGuirk counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,884 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
McGuirk is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Cuirc, patronymic from the personal name Core ‘heart’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Harold McGuirkb. 1906AUcricketer (1906-1984)
- Leo McGuirkb. 1908AUcricketer (1908-1973)
- Leroy McGuirkb. 1910USAmerican amateur and professional wrestler, and professional wrestling promoter (1910-1988)
- Mike McGuirkb. 1955USprofessional wrestling ring announcer and commentator
- Bernard McGuirkb. 1957USAmerican radio personality
- Patrick McGuirkb. 1967USAmerican football player
- Tom McGuirkb. 1971USIrish-American hurdler
- Shane McGuirkb. 1995IEIrish darts player
- Pauline McGuirkIEurban geographer
- Zachary McGuirkUSPh.D. City University of New York 2018
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,910 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,440 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,533 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #36,848 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #61,392 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #44,044 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #222 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name McGuirk mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Oirc, patronymic from the personal name Ore, from ore ‘pig’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce McGuirk?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈɡɝk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McGuirk have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named McGuirk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mcguirk.
- Where is McGuirk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, McGuirk is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 113 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name McGuirk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,884 people named McGuirk in 2010, about 1 in 177 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcguirkThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “McGuirk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.