Given name & surname
Mcadoo
“son of the black hound”
McAdoo is a surname from Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
McAdoo goes back to Irish Mac Conduibh, meaning “son of the black hound.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Mac Conduibh (“son of the black hound”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mcadoo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 68
- 68 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1924. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,400 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mcadoo’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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