Explore the Family Name Mccreery

The meaning of Mccreery

Scottish and northern Irish: variant of McCreary.

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How common is the last name Mccreery in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, the surname Mccreery has seen a slight decrease in popularity from the year 2000 to 2010. In 2000, Mccreery was ranked as the 12,340th most common surname, however by 2010 it had slipped slightly to become the 12,496th most common, reflecting a decline of 1.26%. Despite this drop in rank, the actual count of people carrying the Mccreery surname increased by 7.4% over this decade, from 2,310 in 2000 to 2,481 by 2010. Nevertheless, because of population growth, the proportion of the population with this surname per 100,000 people decreased from 0.86 to 0.84 between these two census periods.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#12,340	#12,496	-1.26%
Count	2,310	2,481	7.4%
Proportion per 100k	0.86	0.84	-2.33%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Mccreery

The ethnic identity associated with the surname Mccreery also saw changes between 2000 and 2010, according to the Decennial U.S. Census data. While the majority of individuals with this surname identified as White (95.76% in 2000 and 94.24% in 2010), there was a notable increase in those identifying as Hispanic, rising from 1.17% to 3.10%. The percentage of Mccreery's identifying as Asian/Pacific Islander and Black also saw a slight increase. However, those identifying as American Indian and Alaskan Native dropped by almost half from 0.95% to 0.48%, and those identifying as belonging to two or more races decreased by 6.8%.

	2000	2010	Change
White	95.76%	94.24%	-1.59%
Hispanic	1.17%	3.1%	164.96%
Two or More Races	1.47%	1.37%	-6.8%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0.95%	0.48%	-49.47%
Black	0.3%	0.44%	46.67%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.35%	0.36%	2.86%