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

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 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.

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.