McCallister
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Scottish Gaelic
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/məˈkæɫəstɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McCallister is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 39K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 57K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 60K
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 39K (inferred from the name graph)
8,545 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
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 in the world
(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 | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | McCallister | 91 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | McCallister | 38 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | McCallister | 9 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | McCallister | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | McCallister | 22 |
| KR South Korea | #911 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 305K | — | McCallister | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | McCallister | 3 |
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)
- Don McCallisterb. 1904USAmerican football
- Lon McCallisterb. 1923USAmerican actor (1923-2005)
- Blaine McCallisterb. 1958USprofessional golfer
- Fred McCallisterb. 1962football player (born 1962)
- John McCallisterb. 1972GBBritish politician (born 1972)
- Hamish McCallisterb. 2003GBbadminton player
- Ishbel McCallisterb. 2006GBbadminton player
- Ed McCallisterUSbasketball player
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.5K | #4,146 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.8K | #4,221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.6K | #4,559 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 McCallister mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce McCallister?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈkæɫəstɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McCallister have the most bearers?
- 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.
- Where is McCallister most common?
- McCallister is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 39 thousand people carrying it.
- 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” — the 911th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.