McCorkle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic MacThorcaill ‘son of Thorkeir, a personal name of Old Norse origin, meaning ‘Thor’s kettle’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
McCorkle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GHGhana≈1 in 11Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 22Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 368 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
8,529 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Anglicized form of Gaelic MacThorcaill ‘son of Thorkeir, a personal name of Old Norse origin, meaning ‘Thor’s kettle’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)McCorkle 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8,529 | 1 in 39K | 8.5K | McCorkle | 368 |
| GH Ghana | #918 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | McCorkle | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | McCorkle | 43 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | McCorkle | 35 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | McCorkle | 5 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | McCorkle | 1 |
8,529 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mccorkle. 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. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Samuel Eusebius McCorkleb. 1746USAmerican Presbyterian preacher and education advocate (b. 1746, d. 1811)
- Joseph W. McCorkleb. 1819USAmerican politician (1819-1884)
- Paul G. McCorkleb. 1863USAmerican politician (1863-1934)
- Robert McCorkle Nettingb. 1934USAmerican anthropologist
- Susannah McCorkleb. 1946USAmerican jazz singer (1946–2001)
- George McCorkleb. 1947USAmerican musician (1947-2007)
- Jill McCorkleb. 1958USAmerican writer
- Mark McCorkleb. 1961USAmerican television writer and producer
- Corey McCorkleb. 1969USAmerican installation artist and photographer, born 1969 (born 1969)
- Sean McCorkleb. 1976USAmerican martial artist
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name McCorkle mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic MacThorcaill ‘son of Thorkeir, a personal name of Old Norse origin, meaning ‘Thor’s kettle’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does McCorkle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.5 thousand people named McCorkle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McCorkle.
- How common is the name McCorkle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,529 people named McCorkle in 2010, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is McCorkle compared with other names?
- In Ghana, McCorkle is the 918th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mccorkleThe 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, “McCorkle” — the 918th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.