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The MURE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 296 63141 0 1
United States (1880 census) 169 21766 0 3
Change since 1880 +127 -41375 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 58 22447 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MURE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 56 29925 0.000 3
Illinois 33 35957 0.000 3
New Jersey 30 30183 0.000 4
Florida 25 53700 0.000 2
Michigan 17 58856 0.000 2
Top States for MURE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 16 17533 0.000 5
Iowa 13 26217 0.000 4
New Hampshire 5 25570 0.000 4
New Jersey 30 30183 0.000 4
Arizona 16 29102 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of MURE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MURE surname.

Ethnic distribution of MURE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 196 66.22
Black/African American 71 23.99
White (Hispanic) 13 4.39
Asian/Pacific 10 3.38
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

MURE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MURE in historical publications

MURE. 1. The northern form of Moor. 2. Gael, viohr or more. Large in person. The family of Mure of Caldwell in Ayrshire trace to the reign of King David II., 1329. The name has been 'aried to Blore, JIuir, Moor, (fee, and there are hei'aldric reasons for believing the Moores of Kent and those of Ireland to have had a common origin.

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 MURE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MURE.

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 MURE

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