McDade
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Daibheid (see McDevitt) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
McDade is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 12Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 29Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
San Marino, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Daibheid (see McDevitt). 550
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname McDade is found
(measured from records)McDade 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | McDade | 1 |
| US United States | 7,119 | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | McDade | 357 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | McDade | 152 |
| CA Canada | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | McDade | 76 |
| AU Australia | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | McDade | 78 |
| IE Ireland | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | McDade | 22 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | McDade | 20 |
| SM San Marino | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | McDade | 2 |
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)- Robert McDadeb. 1922USAmerican military personnel (1922–2009)
- Sandy McDadeb. 1964GBScottish actress
- Von McDadeb. 1967USAmerican basketball player (born 1967)
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name McDade come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Daibheid (see McDevitt). 550 Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name McDade?
- In the etymology graph, McDaid is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name McDade mean?
- Recorded meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Daibheid (see McDevitt).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname McDade?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named McDade in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mcdade. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name McDade?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,119 people named McDade in 2010, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcdadeThe 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, “McDade”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.