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The MOREAU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,473 3853 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 460 10341 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +8013 +6488 +0.002 +22
Other Countries
Australia 102 14009 0.001 6
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MOREAU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 1,421 398 0.032 318
Massachusetts 826 1018 0.013 130
Florida 729 2642 0.005 46
Texas 532 3902 0.003 26
Maine 464 476 0.036 364
Top States for MOREAU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 464 476 0.036 364
Louisiana 1,421 398 0.032 318
New Hampshire 371 441 0.030 300
Rhode Island 265 437 0.025 253
Delaware 153 819 0.020 195

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

Classification and Origin of MOREAU

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MOREAU 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.

Ethnic distribution of MOREAU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 518 6.11
White (Hispanic) 204 2.41
Mixed Race 126 1.49
Asian/Pacific 56 0.66
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.19
White (Caucasian) 7,553 89.14

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

Meaning of MOREAU in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MOREAU.

Similar names to MOREAU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOREAU.

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 MOREAU

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