The MOODY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	62,344	479	0.023	231
United States (1880 census)	15,102	377	0.03	302
Change since 1880	+47242	-102	-0.007	-71
Other Countries
Australia	1,967	824	0.012	120
United Kingdom	9,625	625	0.021	210

Top States for MOODY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	4,826	532	0.023	231
Florida	4,340	431	0.027	272
North Carolina	3,884	280	0.048	483
Georgia	3,846	248	0.047	470
California	3,475	952	0.010	103
Top States for MOODY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	1,535	99	0.120	1,204
South Carolina	2,787	201	0.069	695
Mississippi	1,680	243	0.059	591
Alabama	2,347	290	0.053	528
Arkansas	1,366	239	0.051	511

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of MOODY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	979	1.57
Native American/Alaskan	499	0.8
Asian/Pacific	231	0.37
White (Caucasian)	45,505	72.99
Black/African American	14,052	22.54
White (Hispanic)	1,079	1.73

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

Similar names to MOODY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOODY.

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.