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The MORAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 78,546 362 0.029 291
United States (1880 census) 19,259 276 0.039 385
Change since 1880 +59287 -86 -0.01 -94
Other Countries
Australia 3,851 384 0.024 236
United Kingdom 13,733 426 0.03 299
Top States for MORAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 10,003 311 0.030 295
New York 7,256 179 0.038 382
Florida 5,257 335 0.033 329
Texas 4,266 603 0.020 205
Pennsylvania 4,260 257 0.035 347
Top States for MORAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 3,798 171 0.060 598
Rhode Island 595 145 0.057 568
Vermont 307 246 0.050 504
Connecticut 1,717 144 0.050 504
New Hampshire 616 246 0.050 498

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MORAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MORAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MORAN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MORAN by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MORAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MORAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MORAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MORAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 817 1.04
Native American/Alaskan 644 0.82
Asian/Pacific 432 0.55
White (Caucasian) 56,105 71.43
White (Hispanic) 18,623 23.71
Black/African American 1,917 2.44

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MORAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MORAN in historical publications

A multitude. Moran, a contraction of Morgan, which signifies of or belonging to the sea.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to MORAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MORAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MORAN

The following words are slight variants of MORAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.