Mclay Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Cumberland 8
Hunts and Rutland 0
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
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
Lancashire 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
Yorkshire 0

Mclay Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Mclay family

Profession Census Frequency
Cotton Weaver 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Mclay

Name Census Frequency
John Mclay 19
George Mclay 11
William Mclay 11
Elizabeth Mclay 10
Margaret Mclay 10
James Mclay 9
Robert Mclay 9
Jane Mclay 8
David Mclay 6
Ann Mclay 5
Mary Mclay 5
Thomas Mclay 5
Alice Mclay 4
Archibald Mclay 4
Ellen Mclay 4
Jessie Mclay 4
Richard Mclay 4
Agnes Mclay 3
Annie Mclay 3
Catherine Mclay 3
Henry Mclay 3
Alexander Mclay 2
Anne Mclay 2
Arthur Mclay 2
Bridget Mclay 2

Mclay Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Macaulay 63% 1,489
2 Macauley 50% 1,348
3 Mcauley 57% 318
4 Mcclay 83% 264
5 Mclay 100% 223
6 Mcaulay 71% 202
7 Mcleay 83% 109

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The surname Mclay is the 5th most popular variant of Macaulay.

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