McMahan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məkˈmeɪhən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McMahan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of McMahon.
- USUnited States1 in 23K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 34K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 44K
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
- 390 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈76,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of McMahon.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
McMahan 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 | — | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | McMahan | 2 |
| US United States | — | 14,368 | 1 in 23K | 14K | McMahan | 390 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | McMahan | 49 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | McMahan | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | McMahan | 38 |
| LR Liberia | #101 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | McMahan | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | McMahan | 2 |
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)
- Jack McMahanb. 1932USAmerican baseball player
- Lois McMahanb. 1942USAmerican educator and politician from Washington
- W. Edwin McMahanb. 1944USAmerican politician
- Jeff McMahanb. 1954USAmerican philosopher
- Robert McMahanb. 1961USAmerican academic and businessman
- Brian McMahanb. 1969USAmerican guitarist and singer
- Dorothy McMahanb. 1976USAmerican athlete
- Mike McMahanb. 1981USproducer and writer
- Kevin McMahanb. 1983USAmerican football player (born 1983)
- Jeff McMahanUSAmerican politician
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 9 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,356 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 14K | #2,608 |
| 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 McMahan mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of McMahon. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce McMahan?
- A machine transcription gives /məkˈmeɪhən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McMahan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 thousand people named McMahan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McMahan.
- How common is the name McMahan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,368 people named McMahan in 2010, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is McMahan compared with other names?
- In Liberia, McMahan is the 101st most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcmahanThe 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, “McMahan” — the 101st most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.