Is There a McEntire Coat of Arms?

McEntire is an established spelling of the Scottish surname McIntyre. Its meaning, shared with McIntyre, is “Son of the carpenter”.

How the spelling arose

Records show McEntire as one of the forms McIntyre took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes McIntire and MacIntyre.

McEntire by the numbers

4,115 Americans were listed as McEntire in the 2010 census. That puts it inside the top 10,000 US surnames.

Heraldry and the McEntire name

Looking for a McEntire coat of arms? Arms were granted to families, not to surnames, and our research shows which heraldic tradition fits yours.

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