The MOORE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	698,671	16	0.259	2,590
United States (1880 census)	120,070	21	0.24	2,401
Change since 1880	+578601	+5	+0.019	+189
Other Countries
Australia	22,654	32	0.139	1,386
United Kingdom	95,561	31	0.208	2,081

Top States for MOORE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	57,654	20	0.276	2,765
California	47,770	32	0.141	1,410
North Carolina	37,616	7	0.467	4,673
Florida	37,434	23	0.234	2,342
Ohio	36,295	9	0.320	3,197
Top States for MOORE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	15,884	7	0.558	5,584
Alabama	23,011	9	0.517	5,174
South Carolina	18,804	9	0.469	4,687
Tennessee	26,641	10	0.468	4,683
North Carolina	37,616	7	0.467	4,673

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

Classification and Origin of MOORE

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 MOORE 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 MOORE 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 MOORE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	481,035	68.85
Black/African American	188,082	26.92
Mixed Race	11,877	1.7
White (Hispanic)	10,480	1.5
Native American/Alaskan	4,541	0.65
Asian/Pacific	2,585	0.37

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

Similar names to MOORE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOORE.

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.