McChesney
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an tSasanaigh ‘son of the Saxon (i.e
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məkˈtʃɛzni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McChesney is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an tSasanaigh ‘son of the Saxon (i.e. the Englishman)’. Another Anglicized version of this name is McAtasney.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Harry McChesneyb. 1880USAmerican baseball player (1880-1960)
- Bob McChesneyb. 1912USAmerican football player
- Ernest McChesneyb. 1912USAmerican opera singer
- Robert P. McChesneyb. 1913USAmerican artist (1913–2008)
- Mary Fuller McChesneyb. 1922USsculptor
- Robert D. McChesneyb. 1944USAmerican academic
- Bill McChesneyb. 1948USAmerican politician
- Kathleen McChesneyb. 1950USAmerican detective and FBI agent
- Robert W. McChesneyb. 1952USAmerican journalist
- Mart McChesneyb. 1954USAmerican actor (1954-1999)
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)
Attested in 9 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,042 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #31,644 |
| 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
- Where does the name McChesney come from?
- probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an tSasanaigh ‘son of the Saxon (i.e. the Englishman)’. Another Anglicized version of this name is McAtasney. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce McChesney?
- A machine transcription gives /məkˈtʃɛzni/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name McChesney mean?
- Recorded meaning: probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an tSasanaigh ‘son of the Saxon (i.e.
- In which country does McChesney have the most bearers?
- McChesney is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about McChesney?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcchesneyThe 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
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “McChesney”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.