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    The surname Mohn

    A German surname, carried by 3,129 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M500

    Mohn: #10,298 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Mohn #10,298, 3,129 people Mohn: #10,298 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mohn #10,298, 3,129 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mohn is more common than 93.7% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    From the German surname: * from the noun Mohn (“poppy”), * also from the old personal name Monrad, composed of the elements *mundiz (“thought, mind, spirit”) and *rēdaz (“counsel”), * also a variant of Moehn, from Möhn near Trier.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,129 people named Mohn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 98,672 Americans. That is down 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,316.

    #10,298
    rank among US surnames
    3,129
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5.6%
    change since 2000 (was #9,064)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,290Jarquin3,13298,578
    #10,292Andress3,13198,609
    #10,297Breese3,13098,641
    #10,298Myhre3,12998,672
    #10,301Massengale3,12898,704
    #10,302Brandes3,12798,735
    #10,306Elson3,12698,767

    Who is named Mohn

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

    93% of people named Mohn identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mohn

    Mohn has the Soundex code M500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M500.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Mohn come from?
    From the German surname: * from the noun Mohn (“poppy”), * also from the old personal name Monrad, composed of the elements *mundiz (“thought, mind, spirit”) and *rēdaz (“counsel”), * also a variant of Moehn, from Möhn near Trier.
    How common is the surname Mohn?
    3,129 people in the United States had the surname Mohn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,672 Americans. It ranked 10,298th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mohn?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Mohn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Mohn getting more or less common?
    Less common. 3,316 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,129 in 2010, down 5.6%.