McAlester
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Scottish Gaelic
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
McAlester is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 1 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)McAlester counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 268 | — | 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 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)- Charles Godfrey McAlesterb. 1765Scottish clan chief
- Miles Daniel McAlesterb. 1833USUnion army general (1833–1869)
- J. J. McAlesterb. 1842USAmerican politician (1842-1920)
- Angus James Jervis Somerville McAlesterb. 1907(1907-1990)
- Arcie Lee McAlesterb. 1933USAmerican geologist (1933-2016)
- Hugh McA. Pinchinb. 1939GBnot in their usual nameBritish economist (1939-2017)
- Keven McAlesterb. 2000USAmerican screenwriter
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 268 | #77,203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 208 | #83,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 166 | #107,134 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 McAlester mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does McAlester have the most bearers?
- McAlester is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about McAlester?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcalesterThe 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, “McAlester”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.