McQuarrie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Scottish Gaelic ‘son of Guaire’, meaning ‘proud, noble’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məˈkwɑˌɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McQuarrie is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Scottish Gaelic ‘son of Guaire’, meaning ‘proud, noble’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
McQuarrie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Guaire, a patronymic from a Gaelic personal name meaning ‘proud’, ‘noble’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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 Garland McQuarrieb. 1876CACanadian politician (1876–1943)
- Irvine McQuarrieb. 1891USAmerican pediatrician
- Albert McQuarrieb. 1918GBBritish politician (1918-2016)
- Ralph McQuarrieb. 1929USAmerican conceptual designer and illustrator (1929-2012)
- Donald A. McQuarrieb. 1937USPh.D. University of Oregon 1962
- Andy McQuarrieb. 1939GBBritish association football player (born 1939)
- Myrna McQuarrieb. 1941CACanadian curler
- Stuart McQuarrieb. 1963GBBritish actor
- Christopher McQuarrieb. 1968USAmerican screenwriter, producer and director (born 1968)
- Archie McQuarrieNZNew Zealand association footballer
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 8 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 864 | #27,804 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 846 | #29,704 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 831 | #27,344 |
| 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 McQuarrie mean, and where does it come from?
- from Scottish Gaelic ‘son of Guaire’, meaning ‘proud, noble’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce McQuarrie?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈkwɑˌɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McQuarrie have the most bearers?
- McQuarrie is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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, “McQuarrie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.