McKethan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eachain (see McCaughan)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
McKethan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 665K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.3Mfew records
- GYGuyana≈1 in 55Kfew records
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
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eachain (see McCaughan).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname McKethan is found
(measured from records)McKethan 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 | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 274K | — | McKethan | 1 |
| US United States | 500 | 1 in 665K | 524 | McKethan | 170 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | McKethan | 4 |
| EG Egypt | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | McKethan | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | McKethan | 1 |
| GY Guyana | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | McKethan | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 256K | — | McKethan | 1 |
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. 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)- Alfred A. McKethanb. 1908USAmerican banker, citrus grower, cattle rancher, agri-businessman, politician, philanthropist
- Marcus McKethanb. 1999USAmerican football player (born 1999)
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name McKethan mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eachain (see McCaughan). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname McKethan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 919 people named McKethan in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mckethan. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Egypt and Singapore; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name McKethan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 500 people named McKethan in 2010, about 1 in 665 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mckethanThe 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, “McKethan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.