McRae
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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Raith (“son of grace”), from mac + rath. Compare the Irish form McGrath.
Proper noun
[edit]McRae (countable and uncountable, plural McRaes)
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States.
- A city in White County, Arkansas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, Florida, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, McRae is the 1987th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 18156 individuals. McRae is most common among White (52.7%) and Black/African American (41.41%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “McRae”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 561.
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- English terms derived from Scottish Gaelic
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Scottish Gaelic
- en:Unincorporated communities in Alabama, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Alabama, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Cities in Arkansas, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:Places in Arkansas, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Florida, USA
- en:Places in Florida, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Virginia, USA
- en:Places in Virginia, USA