The MOYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	36,421	871	0.014	135
United States (1880 census)	11,443	523	0.023	229
Change since 1880	+24978	-348	-0.009	-94
Other Countries
Australia	34	34199	0	2
United Kingdom	47	26315	0	1

Top States for MOYER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	12,399	48	0.101	1,010
Ohio	2,175	555	0.019	192
Florida	1,886	1066	0.012	118
California	1,820	1765	0.005	54
Virginia	1,335	631	0.019	189
Top States for MOYER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	12,399	48	0.101	1,010
Delaware	294	393	0.038	375
Ohio	2,175	555	0.019	192
Virginia	1,335	631	0.019	189
Wyoming	93	554	0.019	188

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

Classification and Origin of MOYER

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 MOYER 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 MOYER 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 MOYER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	823	2.26
White (Hispanic)	397	1.09
Mixed Race	346	0.95
Asian/Pacific	149	0.41
Native American/Alaskan	127	0.35
White (Caucasian)	34,578	94.94

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

Similar names to MOYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOYER.

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.