Mclain Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Hunts and Rutland 0
Lancashire 1
Yorkshire 1
Anglesey 0
Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Brecknockshire 0
Berkshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0

Mclain Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Mclain family

Profession Census Frequency
Apprentice 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Mclain

Name Census Frequency
John Mclain 16
William Mclain 16
Elizabeth Mclain 13
Mary Mclain 11
Thomas Mclain 10
Catherine Mclain 7
Andrew Mclain 6
Sarah Mclain 6
James Mclain 5
Margaret Mclain 5
Annie Mclain 4
Edward Mclain 4
Ellen Mclain 4
Jane Mclain 4
Joseph Mclain 3
Robert Mclain 3
Agnes Mclain 2
Edith Mclain 2
Eleanor Mclain 2
George Mclain 2
Hannah Mclain 2
Ralph Mclain 2
Richard Mclain 2
Sophia Mclain 2
Alexander Mclain 1

Mclain Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Mclean 67% 7,086
2 Maclean 57% 4,341
3 Mclane 67% 688
4 Maclain 86% 504
5 Mclain 100% 179
6 Maclin 67% 143
7 Mcloan 67% 121
8 Maclane 57% 107

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The surname Mclain is the 5th most popular variant of Mclean.

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