McCrimmon
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
McCrimmon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ruimein ‘son of Ruimen\ Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Hrodmundr, composed of the elements hrod ‘fame’ + mundr ‘protection’.
- USUnited States1 in 182K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 184K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 9.4K
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
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,824 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ruimein ‘son of Ruimen\ Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Hrodmundr, composed of the elements hrod ‘fame’ + mundr ‘protection’. This was the name of a famous family of pipers.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
McCrimmon 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 | 1,824 | 1 in 182K | 1.8K | McCrimmon | 229 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | McCrimmon | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | McCrimmon | 83 |
| CA Canada | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | McCrimmon | 92 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | McCrimmon | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | McCrimmon | 5 |
| EE Estonia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | McCrimmon | 1 |
1,824 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)
McCrimmon is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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)
- Russell McCrimmonb. 1890CACanadian ice hockey player
- Don McCrimmonb. 1918CACanadian politician (1918–1992)
- Jim McCrimmonb. 1953CACanadian ice hockey defenceman
- Brad McCrimmonb. 1959CACanadian ice hockey player (1959–2011)
- Karen McCrimmonb. 1959CACanadian politician
- Kelly McCrimmonb. 1960CACanadian ice hockey executive
- Nicky McCrimmonb. 1972USAmerican basketball player (born 1972)
- Rory J. McCrimmonGBresearcher
- Donald McCrimmonCAresearcher
- Malik McCrimmonUSbasketball player
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 9 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,931 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,235 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,464 |
| 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 McCrimmon mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ruimein ‘son of Ruimen\ Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Hrodmundr, composed of the elements hrod ‘fame’ + mundr ‘protection’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does McCrimmon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named McCrimmon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mccrimmon.
- How common is the name McCrimmon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,824 people named McCrimmon in 2010, about 1 in 182 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, “McCrimmon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.