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    The surname Moffit

    A surname, carried by 1,288 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M130

    Moffit: #20,574 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Moffit #20,574, 1,288 people Moffit: #20,574 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Moffit #20,574, 1,288 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moffit is more common than 87.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,288 people named Moffit in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 239,709 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,270.

    #20,574
    rank among US surnames
    1,288
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #19,642)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #20,565Elmi1,289239,523
    #20,574Follmer1,288239,709

    Who is named Moffit

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

    88% of people named Moffit identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Moffit

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Moffit?
    1,288 people in the United States had the surname Moffit in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 239,709 Americans. It ranked 20,574th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Moffit?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Moffit identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Moffit getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,270 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,288 in 2010, up 1.4%.