McGlynn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Fhioinn, patronymic from the personal name ‘red’, ‘crimson’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məˈɡɫɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McGlynn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 40K
- CACanada≈1 in 55K
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)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Fhioinn, patronymic from the personal name ‘red’, ‘crimson’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
McGlynn 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 | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | McGlynn | 3 |
| US United States | — | 4,200 | 1 in 79K | 4.2K | McGlynn | 320 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | McGlynn | 158 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | McGlynn | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | McGlynn | 101 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | McGlynn | 105 |
| IE Ireland | #813 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | McGlynn | 76 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | McGlynn | 31 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | McGlynn | 1 |
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)
- Frank McGlynn Sr.b. 1866USAmerican actor (1866–1951)
- Arty McGlynnb. 1944IEIrish musician
- John H. McGlynnb. 1952USEditor and translator
- John McGlynnb. 1953GBactor
- Mary Elizabeth McGlynnb. 1966USAmerican voice actress and director
- Aileen McGlynnb. 1973GBScottish paralympic tandem cyclist
- Mike McGlynnb. 1985USAmerican football offensive lineman
- Jack McGlynnb. 2003USAmerican soccer player
- Molly McGlynnCACanadian film and television director, and screenwriter
- Appelusa McGlynnactress
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 17 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,880 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.1K | #7,820 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,927 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 McGlynn mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Fhioinn, patronymic from the personal name ‘red’, ‘crimson’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce McGlynn?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈɡɫɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McGlynn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named McGlynn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mcglynn.
- How common is the name McGlynn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,200 people named McGlynn in 2010, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
- How common is McGlynn compared with other names?
- In Ireland, McGlynn is the 813th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcglynnThe 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, “McGlynn” — the 813th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.