The MOOSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,551	8541	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	1,029	5324	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+2522	-3217	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	10	30627	0	0

Top States for MOOSE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,191	1088	0.015	148
Pennsylvania	353	4635	0.003	29
California	148	17386	0.000	4
Virginia	136	6027	0.002	19
New York	133	15222	0.001	7
Top States for MOOSE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,191	1088	0.015	148
Pennsylvania	353	4635	0.003	29
South Carolina	113	4543	0.003	28
Alaska	17	6080	0.003	27
Iowa	76	6417	0.003	26

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

Classification and Origin of MOOSE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	146	4.11
Black/African American	110	3.1
Mixed Race	59	1.66
White (Hispanic)	26	0.73
Asian/Pacific	12	0.34
White (Caucasian)	3,198	90.06

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

Similar names to MOOSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOOSE.

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.