McClane
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
McClane is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of McLean.
- USUnited States1 in 320K(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 171K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 194K
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
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)
1,040 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of McLean.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
McClane 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 | 1,040 | 1 in 320K | 1.1K | McClane | 246 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 279K | — | McClane | 50 |
| IT Italy | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 449K | — | McClane | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 359K | — | McClane | 13 |
| AU Australia | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 408K | — | McClane | 20 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | McClane | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | McClane | 1 |
1,040 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mcclane. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,670 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,174 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,800 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 McClane mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of McLean. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does McClane have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named McClane, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McClane.
- How common is the name McClane?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,040 people named McClane in 2010, about 1 in 320 thousand residents.
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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, “McClane”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.