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    The surname Moats

    A surname, carried by 5,778 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M320

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moats is more common than 96.3% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Moat.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 5,778 people named Moats in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 53,435 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,556.

    #5,956
    rank among US surnames
    5,778
    people in 2010
    2.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4%
    change since 2000 (was #5,721)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,951Meagher5,78453,379
    #5,953Harkness5,78353,388
    #5,954Bartz5,78153,407
    #5,956Moats5,77853,435

    Who is named Moats

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    90% of people named Moats identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.7%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Moats

    Moats has the Soundex code M320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M320.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Moats come from?
    Variant of Moat.
    How common is the surname Moats?
    5,778 people in the United States had the surname Moats in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 53,435 Americans. It ranked 5,956th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Moats?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Moats identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Moats getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,556 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,778 in 2010, up 4.0%.