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The MUIR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,863 3060 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 2,483 2449 0.005 50
Change since 1880 +8380 -611 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 4,112 360 0.025 252
United Kingdom 13,004 454 0.028 283
Top States for MUIR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,194 2552 0.004 35
Pennsylvania 738 1947 0.006 60
Florida 729 2718 0.005 46
New York 627 2957 0.003 33
Utah 565 465 0.025 253
Top States for MUIR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 565 465 0.025 253
Idaho 182 885 0.014 141
Vermont 81 1318 0.013 133
Wyoming 56 1000 0.011 113
Oregon 308 1318 0.009 90

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

Classification and Origin of MUIR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 525 4.83
White (Hispanic) 226 2.08
Mixed Race 153 1.41
Asian/Pacific 74 0.68
Native American/Alaskan 51 0.47
White (Caucasian) 9,834 90.53

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

Meaning of MUIR in historical publications

MUIR. The Scottish form of JMoor. It occurs in composition with several surnames.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MUIR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MUIR.

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 MUIR

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