Explore the Family Name Mcpheeters

The meaning of Mcpheeters

Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Pheadair ‘son of Peter’, with excrescent -s. Compare McFetridge.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.

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

Based on data from the Decennial U.S. Census, the surname McPheeters has seen a slight decrease in popularity between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, McPheeters was ranked as the 21,754th most common surname, but by 2010 it had dropped to the 22,749th position, representing a change of -4.57 percent. Despite this drop in rank, the actual count of people with this surname increased slightly from 1,115 in 2000 to 1,126 in 2010, indicating a growth of 0.99 percent. However, its proportion per 100,000 people decreased by 7.32 percent.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#21,754	#22,749	-4.57%
Count	1,115	1,126	0.99%
Proportion per 100k	0.41	0.38	-7.32%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Mcpheeters

Ethnic identity associated with the surname McPheeters also saw changes between 2000 and 2010. According to the Decennial U.S. Census, the majority of individuals with this surname identify as White. This group made up 88.34 percent in 2000, which slightly decreased to 86.15 percent in 2010. Those identifying as Black made up 5.83 percent in 2000 and saw a small increase to 6.04 percent in 2010. The percentage of individuals identifying as Hispanic grew from 3.32 percent to 4.44 percent. Interestingly, there were individuals who began to identify as Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian and Alaskan Native in 2010, and an increase in those identifying with two or more races from 1.61 percent in 2000 to 2.31 percent in 2010.

	2000	2010	Change
White	88.34%	86.15%	-2.48%
Black	5.83%	6.04%	3.6%
Hispanic	3.32%	4.44%	33.73%
Two or More Races	1.61%	2.31%	43.48%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0.62%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0.44%	0%