McCord

surname · Latin script

Meaning: From Gaelic Mac Cuairt and Mac Cuarta, perhaps 'son of a journey'

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/məˈkɔɹd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

McCord is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 19K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 26K
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 11K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈96,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
428 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

McCordLatin(measured from records)
แมคคอร์ดThai(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Gaelic Mac Cuairt and Mac Cuarta, perhaps 'son of a journey'.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

McCord 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.

Where McCord is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈96,000 est.≈1 in 15K—McCord5
PK Pakistan≈21,000 est.≈1 in 11K—McCord3
US United States17,8751 in 19K18KMcCord428
GB United Kingdom≈2,500 est.≈1 in 26KlistedMcCord122
EG Egypt≈2,100 est.≈1 in 49K—McCord5
DZ Algeria≈1,900 est.≈1 in 23K—McCord1
SG Singapore≈480 est.≈1 in 13K—McCord3

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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

McCord is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Mc-Cord

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Маккорд

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

McCord 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.

  • Northern Irish and Scottish; Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cuairt or Mac Cuarta, apparently meaning ‘son of a journey’, which Woulfe suggests may be a reduced form of Mac Muircheartaigh (see McMurtry).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • MacCuarta, patrs. from a personal name of uncertain ori¬ gin. Vars.: McCoard, McCourt.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

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)

18001850190019502000Myron H. McCord, b. 1840Harold McCord, b. 1893Ted McCord, b. 1900James W. McCord, Jr., b. 1924Kent McCord, b. 1942Billy Vera, b. 1944Jonas McCord, b. 1952Scott McCord, b. 1971Tim McCord, b. 1979AnnaLynne McCord, b. 1987

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)

FormalDear Mccord,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting McCord
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201018K#2,019
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200017K#1,918
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202017K#2,075
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988)———
US United Stateswru 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

What does the name McCord mean, and where does it come from?
From Gaelic Mac Cuairt and Mac Cuarta, perhaps 'son of a journey'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce McCord?
A machine transcription gives /məˈkɔɹd/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does McCord have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 96 thousand people named McCord in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McCord.
How common is the name McCord?
In the United States, the national register counted 17,875 people named McCord in 2010, about 1 in 19 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, “McCord”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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