McBride
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Gaelic Mac Brighde, reduced from earlier Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Brighde or Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Brighde
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
McBride is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 4.2K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 520 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
63,899 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Gaelic Mac Brighde, reduced from earlier Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Brighde or Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Brighde.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)McBride 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 | #415 | 63,899 | 1 in 5.2K | 64K | McBride | 520 |
| GB United Kingdom | #453 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | McBride | 238 |
| CA Canada | #455 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | McBride | 208 |
| AU Australia | #555 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | McBride | 164 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | McBride | 25 |
| NZ New Zealand | #344 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | McBride | 91 |
| IE Ireland | #293 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | McBride | 88 |
63,899 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. 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)McBride 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, 'son of (the servant of St) Bride'; first attested Cristinus McBryd 1329 Black
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Brighde, from earlier Mac Giolla Bhrighde (Irish), Mac Gille Brighde (Scottish) ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Brighid’. Compare Kilbride.
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)- Jim McBrideb. 1941USAmerican screenwriter
- Tom McBrideb. 1952USAmerican actor (1952-1995)
- James McBrideb. 1957USAmerican writer
- Chi McBrideb. 1961USAmerican actor
- Melissa McBrideb. 1965USAmerican actress
- Martina McBrideb. 1966USAmerican country singer
- Brian McBrideb. 1972USAmerican soccer player
- Christian McBrideb. 1972USAmerican jazz bassist, composer, and arranger
- Danny McBrideb. 1976USAmerican actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter
- Sarah McBrideb. 1990USAmerican human rights activist and politician (born 1990)
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name McBride mean, and where does it come from?
- From Gaelic Mac Brighde, reduced from earlier Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Brighde or Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Brighde. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does McBride have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 64 thousand people named McBride, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mcbride.
- How common is the name McBride?
- In the United States, the national register counted 63,899 people named McBride in 2010, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is McBride compared with other names?
- In the United States, McBride is the 415th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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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, “McBride” — the 415th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.