When joining the SAG, there already was another "Danny McBride" ('Dirty Dan' McBride), so he added the initial to his professional name. After receiving more and more movie credit he is allowed to go by "Danny McBride" since mid-2008.
Was in a relationship with Gia Ruiz for nine years before getting married. They got engaged in their sixth year together.
Attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina with collaborators Ben Best and Jody Hill.
McBride's wife, Gia Ruiz, gave birth to their first child, a son named Declan George McBride (Sept. 26, 2011).
Usually receives writing credit as "Danny R. McBride".
Danny's father has English, as well as Scottish and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), ancestry. Danny's mother has Russian Jewish (from her own paternal grandfather), English, and German ancestry.