How common is the surname Moir?

2,085 people in the United States had the surname Moir in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,079 Americans. It ranked 14,349th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Moir?

In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Moir identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Moir getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,134 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,085 in 2010, down 2.3%.

The surname Moir

A surname, carried by 2,085 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moir is more common than 91.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,085 people named Moir in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 148,079 Americans. That is down 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,134.

#14,349

rank among US surnames

2,085

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

-2.3%

change since 2000 (was #13,137)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,342	Rogowski	2,086	148,008
#14,349	Moir	2,085	148,079
#14,356	Maida	2,084	148,150
#14,358	Spatz	2,083	148,222

Who is named Moir

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

90% of people named Moir identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
Two or more races 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Moir

Moir has the Soundex code M600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M600.

Questions

How common is the surname Moir?: 2,085 people in the United States had the surname Moir in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,079 Americans. It ranked 14,349th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Moir?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Moir identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Moir getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,134 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,085 in 2010, down 2.3%.