McCusty Surname

3,485,539th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 32 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

McCusty Surname Definition:

Woulfe evidently treated the name Custy as obsolete, as he does not give this as one of the anglicized variants of the Gaelic Irish Mac Oiste (or Mac Coiste), though he does give MacCosty as a form no longer in use. Custy, however, appears in the Clare freeholders, 1821, and is still extant in west Clare to my own knowledge.

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McCusty Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States321:11,326,842445,236
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

McCusty Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

Woulfe evidently treated the name Custy as obsolete, as he does not give this as one of the anglicized variants of the Gaelic Irish Mac Oiste (or Mac Coiste), though he does give MacCosty as a form no longer in use. Custy, however, appears in the Clare freeholders, 1821, and is still extant in west Clare to my own knowledge. According to tradition Mac Oiste, normally anglicized Hosty (sometimes Hasty), originated as a surname with Roger (Hodge) Merrick, a Mayo Welshman who was killed in 1276. It was in Co. Galway in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: it occurs as MacCusty in the Compossicion Book of Conought (1585); eight times as MacCosty(e) and MacCosto in the Galway Book of Survey & Distribution (barony of Dunmore) and many times in the Elizabethan Fiants relating to counties Galway and Mayo as MacHostie, MacHoste, MacCoiste, MacQuist etc., and is still found in its modern form in fair numbers in those counties.

Hasty is mentioned in the Registrar-General's report on synonyms as becoming Hastings both in Co. Armagh and Co. Derry. The rare name McGusty is also presumably an anglicized form of Mac Oiste.

Supplement to Irish Families (1964) by Edward MacLysaght

McCusty Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name McCusty Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname McCusty is found in The United States more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of McCusty click here.

How Common Is The Last Name McCusty? popularity and diffusion

McCusty is the 3,485,539th most frequently used surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 227,735,810 people. The surname is predominantly found in The Americas, where 103 percent of McCusty live; 103 percent live in North America and 103 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The last name is most commonly occurring in The United States, where it is carried by 32 people, or 1 in 11,326,842. In The United States McCusty is most frequent in: Virginia, where 53 percent live, Massachusetts, where 28 percent live and Ohio, where 9 percent live. Outside of The United States this surname is found in one country. It is also common in Canada, where 3 percent live.

McCusty Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of McCusty has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the McCusty surname rose 3,200 percent between 1880 and 2014.

McCusty Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the McCusty surname are 19.9% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 66.67% being registered with the political party.

McCusty earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 5.59% more than the national average, earning $45,563 USD per year.

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