McCurley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thoirdhealbhaigh, a patronymic from the personal name Toirdhealbhach ‘Thor-shaped’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
McCurley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 120Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 125K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 140K
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)
- Record sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
2,665 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thoirdhealbhaigh, a patronymic from the personal name Toirdhealbhach ‘Thor-shaped’. Compare Turley, from the unlenited form.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)McCurley 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 | 2,665 | 1 in 125K | 2.7K | McCurley | 271 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | McCurley | 67 |
| CA Canada | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | McCurley | 23 |
| AU Australia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | McCurley | 57 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | McCurley | 6 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | McCurley | 1 |
2,665 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mccurley. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kevin McCurleyb. 1926GBEnglish footballer (1926-2000)
- Anna McCurleyb. 1943GBBritish politician (born 1943)
- Stephan McCurleyb. 1990USAmerican racing driver
- Shannon McCurleyb. 1992AUIrish sport cyclist
- Kevin McCurleyUSComputer scientist, cryptographer, mathematician
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,753 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,329 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #12,070 |
| 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
- Where does the name McCurley come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thoirdhealbhaigh, a patronymic from the personal name Toirdhealbhach ‘Thor-shaped’. Compare Turley, from the unlenited form. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name McCurley mean?
- Recorded meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thoirdhealbhaigh, a patronymic from the personal name Toirdhealbhach ‘Thor-shaped’.
- In which country does McCurley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named McCurley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McCurley.
- How common is the name McCurley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,665 people named McCurley in 2010, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mccurleyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “McCurley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.