Surname statistics for McDonagh

There are approximately 7,254 people named McDonagh in the UK. That makes it the 1,482nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 115 are named McDonagh.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)72541482N/A115
United Kingdom (1881 census)5927290less than 0.0012
Change since 1881+7195+25808+113
Other Countries
United States195614115N/A7
Australia4443577N/A27

Politics

People with the surname McDonagh are less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Labour.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John McDonagh
Michael McDonagh
Patrick McDonagh
Paul McDonagh
Martin McDonagh
Thomas McDonagh
Kevin McDonagh
James McDonagh
Stephen McDonagh
Christopher McDonagh
David McDonagh
Peter McDonagh
Anthony McDonagh
Sean McDonagh
Mark McDonagh
Andrew McDonagh
Robert McDonagh
Francis McDonagh
Gerard McDonagh
Gary McDonagh

Top female forenames

Mary McDonagh
Margaret McDonagh
Susan McDonagh
Geraldine McDonagh
Patricia McDonagh
Julie McDonagh
Christine McDonagh
Denise McDonagh
Catherine McDonagh
Sarah McDonagh
Sandra McDonagh
Anne McDonagh
Ruth McDonagh
Sheila McDonagh
Mandy McDonagh
Alison McDonagh
Amanda McDonagh
Paula McDonagh
Joanne McDonagh
Tracy McDonagh

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.