McNealy
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
McNealy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; Devon; Cumb. from Mac an Fhilidh, see McNeilly .
- USUnited States1 in 186K(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 98K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 186K
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
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 98K (inferred from the name graph)
1,791 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; Devon; Cumb. from Mac an Fhilidh, see McNeilly .
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
McNealy 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 | 1,791 | 1 in 186K | 1.8K | McNealy | 247 |
| GH Ghana | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | McNealy | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | McNealy | 37 |
| MA Morocco | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | McNealy | 5 |
| BR Brazil | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | McNealy | 3 |
| BE Belgium | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | McNealy | 1 |
1,791 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mcnealy. 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)
- Robert J. McNealyb. 1907USAmerican politician
- Scott McNealyb. 1954USAmerican businessman
- Rusty McNealyb. 1958USAmerican baseball player
- Chris McNealyb. 1961USAmerican basketball player (born 1961)
- Chris McNealyb. 1992USAmerican basketball player (born 1992)
- Maverick McNealyb. 1995USAmerican golfer (1995-)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,476 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,984 |
| 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 McNealy mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; Devon; Cumb. from Mac an Fhilidh, see McNeilly . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does McNealy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named McNealy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McNealy.
- How common is the name McNealy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,791 people named McNealy in 2010, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcnealyThe 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, “McNealy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.