McPheeters
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Pheadair, a patronymic from a Gaelic personal name meaning ‘servant of (Saint) Peter’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/məkˈfitɝz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McPheeters is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 295K(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 80K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 112K
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)
- Record sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
1,126 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Pheadair, a patronymic from a Gaelic personal name meaning ‘servant of (Saint) Peter’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)McPheeters 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 | 1,126 | 1 in 295K | 1.1K | McPheeters | 207 |
| AO Angola | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | McPheeters | 1 |
| IN India | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 7.5M | — | McPheeters | 2 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | McPheeters | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 541K | — | McPheeters | 9 |
| CO Colombia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | McPheeters | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | McPheeters | 1 |
1,126 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mcpheeters. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)McPheeters is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- William McPheetersb. 1778(1778-1842)
- Lincoln A. McPheetersb. 1863USAmerican photographer (1863-1942)
- Harry Halstead McPheetersb. 1892USAmerican photographer
- Sam McPheetersb. 1969USAmerican musician
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,749 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,754 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,040 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 McPheeters mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Pheadair, a patronymic from a Gaelic personal name meaning ‘servant of (Saint) Peter’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce McPheeters?
- A machine transcription gives /məkˈfitɝz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McPheeters have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named McPheeters, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McPheeters.
- How common is the name McPheeters?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,126 people named McPheeters in 2010, about 1 in 295 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcpheetersThe 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, “McPheeters”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.