McGann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Gaelic Mag Annaidh, ‘son of Annadh’, a personal name of unknown origin and meaning; or a different form of McCann
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məˈɡæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McGann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 86K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
- ESSpain1 in 6.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
3,853 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 Mag Annaidh, ‘son of Annadh’, a personal name of unknown origin and meaning; or a different form of McCann.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
McGann 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 | 3,853 | 1 in 86K | 3.9K | McGann | 9 |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 4 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
3,853 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
McGann is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
McErchar see Farquhar patr. from the personal name Annadh, the meaning of which is unknown. There has been considerable confusion McErlean Scots: Anglicized form of Gael. Mac an Fhirleighinn ‘son of the lector’; this was the title held with McCann. Var.: Magann (see also Gahan). by the head of a monastic school.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
patr. from the personal name Annadh, the meaning of which is unknown. There has been considerable confusion with McCann. Var.: Magann (see also Gahan). McGarrigle McHale 358
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
1. Connacht form of McCann. 2. possibly a reduced form of McGahan.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Dan McGannb. 1871USAmerican baseball player
- William C. McGannb. 1893USfilm director (1893-1977)
- Jerome McGannb. 1937USAmerican academic
- James McGannb. 1955USAmerican academic (1955–2021)
- Joe McGannb. 1958GBEnglish actor (born 1958)
- Paul McGannb. 1959GBEnglish actor (born 1959)
- Mark McGannb. 1961GBEnglish actor (born 1961)
- Stephen McGannb. 1963GBBritish actor (born 1963)
- Brad McGannb. 1964NZNew Zealand filmmaker
- John T. Hunterb. 1967AUnot in their usual nameAustralian botanist
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 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.9K | #8,547 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.7K | #8,176 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #230,041 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #359,860 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #267,328 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #31,250 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #26,681 |
| 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 McGann mean, and where does it come from?
- from Gaelic Mag Annaidh, ‘son of Annadh’, a personal name of unknown origin and meaning; or a different form of McCann. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce McGann?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈɡæn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McGann have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named McGann, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mcgann.
- Where is McGann most common?
- McGann is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 86 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name McGann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,853 people named McGann in 2010, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcgannThe 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, “McGann”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.