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The MOFFATT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,377 7049 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 1,325 4295 0.003 26
Change since 1880 +3052 -2754 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 992 1668 0.006 61
United Kingdom 2,900 2135 0.006 63
Top States for MOFFATT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 462 5907 0.001 14
Florida 300 6337 0.002 19
Pennsylvania 299 4948 0.002 24
New York 257 7304 0.001 14
Texas 226 7913 0.001 11
Top States for MOFFATT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 32 3017 0.005 53
West Virginia 92 2445 0.005 51
Iowa 94 4431 0.003 32
Maine 39 4364 0.003 31
Arkansas 81 3807 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of MOFFATT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 409 9.34
White (Hispanic) 84 1.92
Mixed Race 58 1.33
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.43
Asian/Pacific 17 0.39
White (Caucasian) 3,790 86.59

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

Meaning of MOFFATT in historical publications

(origin: Local) Derived from the town of Moffat, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

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


MOFFATT. A parish partly in Lanarkshire and partlj' in Dumfriesshire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MOFFATT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOFFATT.

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 MOFFATT

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