The MUSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,184	2962	0.004	42
United States (1880 census)	2,373	2554	0.005	47
Change since 1880	+8811	-408	-0.001	-5
Other Countries
Australia	39	31214	0	2
United Kingdom	314	12377	0.001	7

Top States for MUSE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	829	2854	0.004	40
Louisiana	791	846	0.018	177
Virginia	759	1250	0.011	107
Georgia	664	1621	0.008	81
California	592	4968	0.002	17
Top States for MUSE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	791	846	0.018	177
Kentucky	472	1254	0.012	117
Virginia	759	1250	0.011	107
Washington DC	59	1079	0.010	103
Tennessee	575	1532	0.010	101

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

Classification and Origin of MUSE

Region of origin: Africa

Country of origin: Somalia

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of MUSE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	258	2.31
White (Hispanic)	166	1.48
Native American/Alaskan	72	0.64
Asian/Pacific	69	0.62
White (Caucasian)	7,164	64.06
Black/African American	3,455	30.89

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

Similar names to MUSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MUSE.

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.