McVeigh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Scottish Gaelic
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
McVeigh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 31K
- IEIreland≈1 in 35Kfew records
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
- 309 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
2,983 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)McVeigh 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 | 2,983 | 1 in 112K | 3K | McVeigh | 309 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | McVeigh | 163 |
| AU Australia | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | McVeigh | 109 |
| CA Canada | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | McVeigh | 95 |
| IE Ireland | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | McVeigh | 56 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | McVeigh | 32 |
2,983 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; the bbc-pronouncing-dictionary-british-names register. 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)McVeigh 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.
In English, different form of McBeth
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Variant spelling of Scottish McVey.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Charles McVeighb. 1898CACanadian ice hockey player (1898-1984)
- John J. McVeighb. 1921USWorld War II Medal of Honor recipient
- Tom McVeighb. 1930AUAustralian politician
- Jimmy McVeighb. 1949GBEnglish footballer (born 1949)
- John McVeighb. 1957GBScottish footballer (born 1957)
- John McVeighb. 1965AUAustralian politician
- Timothy McVeighb. 1968USAmerican domestic anti-government terrorist (1968–2001)
- Paul McVeighb. 1977GBNorthern Irish footballer (born 1977)
- Logan McVeighb. 1994CACanadian ice hockey player
- Jack McVeighb. 1996AUAustralian basketball player (born 1996)
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,711 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,110 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,750 |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 McVeigh mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does McVeigh have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named McVeigh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mcveigh.
- How common is the name McVeigh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,983 people named McVeigh in 2010, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about McVeigh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcveighThe 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, “McVeigh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.