McIver
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məˈkɪvɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McIver 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 Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Íomhair (“son of Íomhar”), Gaelic adaptation of the Old Norse name Ívarr.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 37K
- CACanada≈1 in 52K
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
- 333 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
5,457 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Íomhair (“son of Íomhar”), Gaelic adaptation of the Old Norse name Ívarr.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
McIver 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 | 5,457 | 1 in 61K | 5.5K | McIver | 333 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | McIver | 151 |
| GH Ghana | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | McIver | 4 |
| AU Australia | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | McIver | 105 |
| CA Canada | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | McIver | 107 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | McIver | 64 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | McIver | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | — | 2 |
5,457 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lewis McIver, 1st Baronetb. 1846GBBritish politician
- George W. McIverb. 1858USUS Army General (1858-1947)
- Charles Duncan McIverb. 1860USAmerican academic
- Allan McIverb. 1904CACanadian classical pianist (1904-1969)
- Stuart McIverb. 1921UShistorian
- Meredith McIverb. 1951USGhostwriter for Donald Trump
- Beverly McIverb. 1963USAmerican painter (born 1963)
- Joel McIverb. 1971GBBritish author
- LaMonica McIverb. 1986USAmerican politician
- Rose McIverb. 1988NZNew Zealand 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.5K | #6,258 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.3K | #5,952 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.2K | #6,287 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 McIver mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Íomhair (“son of Íomhar”), Gaelic adaptation of the Old Norse name Ívarr. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce McIver?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈkɪvɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McIver have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named McIver, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mciver.
- How common is the name McIver?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,457 people named McIver in 2010, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mciverThe 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, “McIver”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.