McCrae

English

Etymology

Variant of McRae.

Proper noun

McCrae (countable and uncountable, plural McCraes)

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
2. A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, McCrae is the 11436^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2754 individuals. McCrae is most common among Black/African American (63.98%) and White (29.34%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “McCrae”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 549.