McAlpin
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məˈkæɫpən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McAlpin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of McAlpine.
- USUnited States1 in 108K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 119K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 13K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 294 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
3,071 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of McAlpine.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
McAlpin 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 | — | 3,071 | 1 in 108K | 3.1K | McAlpin | 294 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | McAlpin | 70 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | McAlpin | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | McAlpin | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | McAlpin | 36 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | McAlpin | 57 |
| JM Jamaica | #815 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | McAlpin | 4 |
3,071 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mcalpin. 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)
- Henry McAlpinb. 1777Scottish master builder and architect
- Henry McAlpinb. 1827(1827-1881)
- Edwin Augustus McAlpinb. 1848USAmerican general
- Colin McAlpinb. 1870GBEnglish composer and writer
- Vic McAlpinb. 1918American songwriter
- Tom McAlpinb. 1959USAmerican businessman
- Dave McAlpinUSAmerican politician
- Bruce McAlpinbotanist
- Bob McAlpinmusher
- John McAlpinUSPh.D. Columbia University 1965
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,466 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,740 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.9K | #10,559 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 McAlpin mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of McAlpine. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce McAlpin?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈkæɫpən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McAlpin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named McAlpin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McAlpin.
- How common is the name McAlpin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,071 people named McAlpin in 2010, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.
- How common is McAlpin compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, McAlpin is the 815th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcalpinThe 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, “McAlpin” — the 815th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.