The McLemore surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 10,850 people carried this name — #3,306 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 27,200 people counted. That is up 4% from 10,448 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the McLemore surname

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Mhuire (“son of the servant of Mary”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «McLemore» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In the first U.S. census, 1790

24 families named McLemore, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 118 people lived in those households, 4.9 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 5 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

North Carolina 15
South Carolina 5
Virginia 3
Maryland 1

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 253 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

McLemore in American newspapers,
1918–1920.

Newspaper page from The Watchman And Southron carrying the name McLemore
The Watchman And Southron 1920-04-14
Newspaper page from The Watchman And Southron carrying the name McLemore
The Watchman And Southron 1918-03-16
Newspaper page from The Watchman And Southron carrying the name McLemore
The Watchman And Southron 1919-11-08

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 19,569 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named McLemore,
with a public archive behind them.

  • A. Jeff McLemore
    A. Jeff McLemore 1857–1929 · publisher
  • Thomas Henry McLemore
    Thomas Henry McLemore d. 1947 · politician
  • Albert Sidney McLemore
    Albert Sidney McLemore 1869–1921 · military officer
  • McCoy McLemore 1942–2009 · basketball player
  • Doris McLemore 1927–2016

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0.

In the public record

People named McLemore,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States485 records

485 records of the McLemore name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 322
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 146
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 8
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 6
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Billy E. McLemore

    Born 1930; from Poinsett County, Arkansas. U.S. Army, field artillery cannoneer; killed in action 1951 in South Korea. Buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Richard McLemore

    Born 1909 in Oklahoma. Enlisted 1942 at Tulsa; animal from Cherokee County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1971, buried at Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Oklahoma.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Deanna McLemore

    U.S. Navy veteran of Panama, the Gulf War and Somalia. Born 1964, died 2000; buried at Dayton National Cemetery, Ohio.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 485 records for McLemore in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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