Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Moghaddam

    A Persian surname, carried by 564 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex M235

    Moghaddam: #39,052 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Moghaddam #39,052, 564 people Moghaddam: #39,052 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Moghaddam #39,052, 564 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moghaddam is more common than 75.9% of them.

    Origin

    Persian origin

    Borrowed from dialectal Iranian Persian مُقَدَّم (moġaddam), from Classical Persian مُقَدَّم (muqaddam), from Arabic مُقَدَّم (muqaddam). Doublet of muqaddam.

    One of 28 Persian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 564 people named Moghaddam in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 547,421 Americans. That is up 53% since 2000, when the Census counted 368.

    #39,052
    rank among US surnames
    564
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +53.3%
    change since 2000 (was #52,827)

    Who is named Moghaddam

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

    80% of people named Moghaddam identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as two or more races and 5.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Two or more races 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Moghadam

    Moghaddam has the Soundex code M235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M235.

    Other Persian surnames

    All 28 Persian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Moghaddam come from?
    Borrowed from dialectal Iranian Persian مُقَدَّم (moġaddam), from Classical Persian مُقَدَّم (muqaddam), from Arabic مُقَدَّم (muqaddam). Doublet of muqaddam.
    How common is the surname Moghaddam?
    564 people in the United States had the surname Moghaddam in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 547,421 Americans. It ranked 39,052nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Moghaddam?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Moghaddam identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Moghaddam getting more or less common?
    More common. 368 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 564 in 2010, up 53%.
    What are other spellings of Moghaddam?
    Moghadam.