McFee
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Gaelic MacDhubhshith ‘son of Dubhshithe’ (black man of peace); first attested Thomas Macdoffy 1296
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
McFee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 51K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
- CACanada≈1 in 120Kfew records
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
- 285 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
2,068 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Gaelic MacDhubhshith ‘son of Dubhshithe’ (black man of peace); first attested Thomas Macdoffy 1296
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname McFee is found
(measured from records)McFee 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 | 2,068 | 1 in 161K | 2.1K | McFee | 285 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | McFee | 86 |
| CA Canada | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | McFee | 77 |
| AU Australia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | McFee | 41 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 372K | — | McFee | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | McFee | 6 |
| IE Ireland | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | McFee | 3 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 2 | 1 in 51K | 2 | — | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | 2 |
2,068 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 2000; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)McFee is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, from Gaelic ‘son of Duibhshith’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
variant spelling of McPhee.
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)- Malcolm McFeeb. 1949GBBritish actor (1949-2001)
- John McFeeb. 1950USAmerican musician
- Bruce McFeeactor
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name McFee mean, and where does it come from?
- from Gaelic MacDhubhshith ‘son of Dubhshithe’ (black man of peace); first attested Thomas Macdoffy 1296 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname McFee?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named McFee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mcfee. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is McFee most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, McFee is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name McFee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,068 people named McFee in 2010, about 1 in 161 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcfeeThe 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, “McFee”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.