McGee

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Irish Mag Aoidh ‘son of Aodh’; first attested Gilmighel Mac Ethe 1296 (CalSc)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/məˈɡi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

McGee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 4.5K
  • CACanada≈1 in 5.3K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈220,000 people, est.

Sources
521 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Irish Mag Aoidh ‘son of Aodh’; first attested Gilmighel Mac Ethe 1296 (CalSc)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

McGee 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.

Where McGee is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈220,000 est.≈1 in 6.4K—McGee13
US United States#34974,5421 in 4.5K75KMcGee521
GB United Kingdom#560≈12,000 est.≈1 in 5.6K—McGee203
CA Canada#472≈7,100 est.≈1 in 5.3K—McGee187
IT Italy#724≈6,800 est.≈1 in 9.2K—McGee20
IE Ireland#259≈1,500 est.≈1 in 3.4K—McGee89
NZ New Zealand#549≈840 est.≈1 in 5.8K—McGee72

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

McGee is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Mc-Gee

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written McGhee, Макги

  • Thai surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Thailand, Laos, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written McGhee, Mackie, Macky, แม็คกี้, Makki

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

McGee is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodha ‘son of Aodh (see McCoy).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, from Gaelic Mac Aodha, see McKay.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In English, Willie, US baseball player

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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)

1850190019502000William John McGee, b. 1853Anita Newcomb McGee, b. 1864Gale W. McGee, b. 1915Patrick Magee, b. 1922Vonetta McGee, b. 1945Jack McGee, b. 1949Alan McGee, b. 1960Pamela McGee, b. 1962American McGee, b. 1972JaVale McGee, b. 1988

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)

FormalDear Mcgee,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting McGee
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201075K#439
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200072K#404
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202071K#453
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 McGee mean, and where does it come from?
Irish Mag Aoidh ‘son of Aodh’; first attested Gilmighel Mac Ethe 1296 (CalSc) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce McGee?
A machine transcription gives /məˈɡi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does McGee have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 219 thousand people named McGee in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McGee.
How common is the name McGee?
In the United States, the national register counted 74,542 people named McGee in 2010, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
How common is McGee compared with other names?
In Ireland, McGee is the 259th most common surname of 73,729 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, “McGee” — the 259th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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