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The MOFFAT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,117 9570 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 1,051 5235 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +2066 -4335 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 1,077 1534 0.007 66
United Kingdom 6,159 1016 0.013 134
Top States for MOFFAT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 392 7011 0.001 12
Pennsylvania 200 7528 0.002 16
Michigan 188 6508 0.002 19
Washington 180 4117 0.003 31
New York 173 11020 0.001 9
Top States for MOFFAT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 172 1739 0.008 77
Idaho 68 2692 0.005 53
Rhode Island 49 3293 0.005 47
Wyoming 21 3254 0.004 43
Connecticut 105 4356 0.003 31

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

Classification and Origin of MOFFAT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MOFFAT 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 MOFFAT 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 MOFFAT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 52 1.67
Black/African American 39 1.25
Mixed Race 38 1.22
Asian/Pacific 32 1.03
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.32
White (Caucasian) 2,946 94.51

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

Meaning of MOFFAT in historical publications

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

Similar names to MOFFAT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOFFAT.

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 MOFFAT

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