McSorley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Somhairle ‘son of Somhairle', a Gaelicized form of an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements suntar ‘summer’ -I- lidr ‘seafarer’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məkˈsɔɹɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McSorley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 186K
- IEIreland≈1 in 66K
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
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Somhairle ‘son of Somhairle', a Gaelicized form of an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements suntar ‘summer’ -I- lidr ‘seafarer’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
McSorley 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 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | McSorley | 2 |
| US United States | 1,788 | 1 in 186K | 1.8K | McSorley | 255 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | McSorley | 147 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 565K | — | McSorley | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | McSorley | 75 |
| AU Australia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | McSorley | 69 |
| JO Jordan | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | McSorley | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | McSorley | 35 |
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)
McSorley 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)
- Trick McSorleyb. 1852USAmerican baseball player (1852-1936)
- Joseph McSorleyb. 1874USAmerican clergyman (1874–1963)
- Ernest M. McSorleyb. 1912USCanadian sailor (1912-1975)
- Gerard McSorleyb. 1950IEIrish actor
- Cisco McSorleyb. 1950USAmerican politician
- Tom McSorleyb. 1960CACanadian radio personality and film critic
- Chris McSorleyb. 1962CACanadian ice hockey player
- Marty McSorleyb. 1963CACanadian ice hockey player
- Eilish McSorleyb. 1993GBScottish footballer (born 1993)
- Trace "The Goat" McSorleyb. 1995USAmerican football player (born 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,166 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,062 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,942 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 McSorley mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Somhairle ‘son of Somhairle', a Gaelicized form of an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements suntar ‘summer’ -I- lidr ‘seafarer’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce McSorley?
- A machine transcription gives /məkˈsɔɹɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McSorley have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named McSorley in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mcsorley.
- How common is the name McSorley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,788 people named McSorley in 2010, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcsorleyThe 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, “McSorley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.