Given name & surname · also Scottish Gaelic and Irish
Mccormick
“son of Cormac”
McCormick is a surname from Scottish Gaelic and Irish (ultimately Old Irish).
Meaning & origin
What it means
McCormick goes back to Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Cormaic, meaning “son of Cormac.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
McCormick comes from Scottish Gaelic and Irish, and ultimately from Old Irish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Cormaic (“son of Cormac”), from Old Irish Cormac.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mccormick through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 86
- 86 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 13 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 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 183 as a first name in 2020; 61,083 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.
Mccormick’s family of names
In English usage, Mccormick as a surname has an alternative spelling in MACCORMICK. In English usage, Mccormick as a surname has a related form in MACORMACK. In English usage, Mccormick as a surname has a related form in MACORMICK.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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