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    The surname Moffat

    A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 3,143 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M130

    Moffat: #10,257 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Moffat #10,257, 3,143 people Moffat: #10,257 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Moffat #10,257, 3,143 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moffat is more common than 93.7% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish Gaelic origin

    From Scottish Gaelic magh (“field, plain”) + fada (“long”).

    Moffat is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,143 people named Moffat in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 98,233 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,117.

    #10,257
    rank among US surnames
    3,143
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.8%
    change since 2000 (was #9,570)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,250Orndorff3,14598,170
    #10,255Fitzhugh3,14498,202
    #10,257Moffat3,14398,233
    #10,258Villagrana3,14298,264
    #10,260Schoch3,14198,295
    #10,265Milford3,14098,327

    Who is named Moffat

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

    93% of people named Moffat identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Moffats

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Donald Moffat
      British actor (1930-2018)
    • John Moffat
      British-Canadian physicist, born 1932
    • Alex Moffat
      American actor and comedian, born 1982

    Notable Moffats come mostly from the United States (2) and the United Kingdom (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Moffat

    Moffat has the Soundex code M130, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M130.

    Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

    All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Moffat come from?
    From Scottish Gaelic magh (“field, plain”) + fada (“long”).
    How common is the surname Moffat?
    3,143 people in the United States had the surname Moffat in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,233 Americans. It ranked 10,257th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Moffat?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Moffat identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Moffat?
    Donald Moffat, British actor (1930-2018), followed by John Moffat.
    Where is the surname Moffat most common?
    Wikidata records people named Moffat in the United States and the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Moffat?
    Moffat is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Moffat getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,117 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,143 in 2010, up 0.8%.
    What are other spellings of Moffat?
    Maffett, Moffatt, Moffett, Moffitt, Mofield and Muffett.