McClurg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Luirg ‘son of Lorg', a personal name meaning ‘footman’ (literally ‘track’)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məˈkɫɝɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McClurg is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- NZNew Zealand
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)
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Luirg ‘son of Lorg', a personal name meaning ‘footman’ (literally ‘track’). Alternatively, it may be a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cleirich ‘son of the scribe or cleric’ (Gaelic cleireach). Compare Cleary.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
McClurg is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from Mac Bhloscaidh ‘son of Bloscadh’, a personal name apparently derived from blosc ‘resounding noise, blast’.
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
In English, A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James McClurgb. 1746USAmerican politician
- Trevor McClurgb. 1817USAmerican artist, 1816-1893 (1817–1893)
- Joseph W. McClurgb. 1818USUnion Army officer, politician (1818-1900)
- Alexander C. McClurgb. 1832USAmerican bookseller (1832-1901)
- Walter Audubon McClurgb. 1852USAmerican naval surgeon
- Edie McClurgb. 1945USAmerican comedian and actress
- Andrew McClurgb. 1954USAmerican legal academic
- Bob McClurgUSAmerican actor
- John McClurgUSSecurity & CI Professional
- Urszula L McClurgGBresearcher
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 | 3.3K | #9,778 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,670 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,353 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #359,840 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #365,011 |
| 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 McClurg mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Luirg ‘son of Lorg', a personal name meaning ‘footman’ (literally ‘track’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce McClurg?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈkɫɝɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McClurg have the most bearers?
- McClurg is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “McClurg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.