The surname Mody
A surname, carried by 1,269 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex M300
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,269 people named Mody in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 243,298 Americans. That is up 21% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,050.
Who is named Mody
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
82% of people named Mody identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 9.1% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.6% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 82%
- White (not Hispanic) 9.1%
- Two or more races 4.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Mody has the Soundex code M300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M300.
Questions
- How common is the surname Mody?
- 1,269 people in the United States had the surname Mody in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 243,298 Americans. It ranked 20,806th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Mody?
- In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Mody identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 9.1% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Mody getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,050 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,269 in 2010, up 21%.