McCallister
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Scottish Gaelic (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
McCallister is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 8,545 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 35Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 39K
- CACanada≈1 in 52K
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)
- Record sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
8,545 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 the surname McCallister is found
(measured from records)McCallister 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 | — | 8,545 | 1 in 39K | 8.5K | McCallister | 346 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | McCallister | 91 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | McCallister | 38 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | McCallister | 6 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | McCallister | 22 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | McCallister | 3 |
| KR South Korea | #911 | — | — | — | McCallister | 2 |
8,545 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mccallister. 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)- Charles McCallisterb. 1903USAmerican water polo player (1903-1997)
- Lon McCallisterb. 1923USAmerican actor (1923-2005)
- Blaine McCallisterb. 1958USprofessional golfer
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)7 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 McCallister mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname McCallister?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.5 thousand people named McCallister, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McCallister. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Malaysia and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name McCallister?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,545 people named McCallister in 2010, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is McCallister compared with other names?
- In South Korea, McCallister is the 911th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mccallisterThe 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, “McCallister” — ranked 4146th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.