The MOORHEAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,420	6992	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	1,128	4939	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+3292	-2053	0	-7
Other Countries
Australia	232	6592	0.001	14
United Kingdom	910	5669	0.002	20

Top States for MOORHEAD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	445	6169	0.001	13
Texas	359	5508	0.002	17
Pennsylvania	358	4177	0.003	29
Ohio	351	3901	0.003	31
Florida	268	7111	0.002	17
Top States for MOORHEAD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	27	4091	0.004	42
New Mexico	75	2199	0.004	41
Delaware	32	4263	0.004	41
South Carolina	156	3423	0.004	39
Nebraska	60	4108	0.004	35

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

Classification and Origin of MOORHEAD

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 MOORHEAD 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 MOORHEAD 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 MOORHEAD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	111	2.51
White (Hispanic)	72	1.63
Mixed Race	57	1.29
Asian/Pacific	26	0.59
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.34
White (Caucasian)	4,139	93.64

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

Similar names to MOORHEAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOORHEAD.

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.