How common is the surname Moller?

4,209 people in the United States had the surname Moller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,354 Americans. It ranked 7,863rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Moller?

In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Moller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Moller?

Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972), followed by Paul Moller.

Where is the surname Moller most common?

Wikidata records people named Moller in the United States, Canada and the Russian Empire.

Is the surname Moller getting more or less common?

More common. 4,064 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,209 in 2010, up 3.6%.

The surname Moller

A surname, carried by 4,209 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M460

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moller is more common than 95.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,209 people named Moller in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 73,354 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,064.

#7,863

rank among US surnames

4,209

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+3.6%

change since 2000 (was #7,546)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,857	Borkowski	4,212	73,301
#7,858	Florio	4,211	73,319
#7,859	Leasure	4,210	73,336
#7,863	Moller	4,209	73,354
#7,866	Plourde	4,208	73,371

Who is named Moller

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

89% of people named Moller identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Mollers

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Lillian Moller Gilbreth
American psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972)
Paul Moller
American aviation inventor, born 1936
Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller
Baltic German artist (1812-1874)

Notable Mollers come mostly from the United States (1), Canada (1) and the Russian Empire (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Moller

Moller has the Soundex code M460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M460.

Questions

How common is the surname Moller?: 4,209 people in the United States had the surname Moller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,354 Americans. It ranked 7,863rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Moller?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Moller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Moller?: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972), followed by Paul Moller.
Where is the surname Moller most common?: Wikidata records people named Moller in the United States, Canada and the Russian Empire.
Is the surname Moller getting more or less common?: More common. 4,064 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,209 in 2010, up 3.6%.