American Surnames

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The MOE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,740 3094 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 1,206 4661 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +9534 +1567 +0.002 +16
Other Countries
Australia 52 24512 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MOE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 2,234 140 0.045 454
Wisconsin 1,133 418 0.021 211
California 1,113 2754 0.003 33
Washington 960 695 0.016 163
Oregon 373 1071 0.011 109
Top States for MOE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 349 115 0.054 543
Minnesota 2,234 140 0.045 454
South Dakota 273 197 0.036 362
Montana 244 338 0.027 270
Wisconsin 1,133 418 0.021 211

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

Classification and Origin of MOE

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Burma

Language of origin: Burmese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MOE 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.

Ethnic distribution of MOE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 405 3.77
Black/African American 279 2.6
Mixed Race 202 1.88
White (Hispanic) 150 1.4
Native American/Alaskan 46 0.43
White (Caucasian) 9,658 89.93

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

Meaning of MOE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MOE.

Similar names to MOE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOE.

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 MOE

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