McCord
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
McCord is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Gaelic Mac Cuairt and Mac Cuarta, perhaps 'son of a journey'.
- 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 428 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈96,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | McCord | 5 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | McCord | 3 |
| US United States | 17,875 | 1 in 19K | 18K | McCord | 428 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | McCord | 122 |
| EG Egypt | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | McCord | 5 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | McCord | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | McCord | 3 |
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 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)
- Myron H. McCordb. 1840USAmerican politician, businessman, and military officer (1840-1908)
- Harold McCordb. 1893American film editor (1893–1957)
- Ted McCordb. 1900USAmerican cinematographer (1900-1976)
- James W. McCord, Jr.b. 1924USMember of Watergate scandal: break-in team member (1924-2017)
- Kent McCordb. 1942USAmerican actor
- Billy Verab. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and actor, songwriter
- Jonas McCordb. 1952USAmerican film producer, screenwriter, director
- Scott McCordb. 1971CACanadian actor
- Tim McCordb. 1979USAmerican rock musician
- AnnaLynne McCordb. 1987USAmerican actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #2,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,918 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,075 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| 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
- 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].
- 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.