How common is the surname Moncrief?

4,665 people in the United States had the surname Moncrief in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 66,183 Americans. It ranked 7,171st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Moncrief?

Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player-coach.

Where is the surname Moncrief most common?

Wikidata records people named Moncrief in the United States.

Is the surname Moncrief getting more or less common?

More common. 4,452 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,665 in 2010, up 4.8%.

The surname Moncrief

A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 4,665 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M526

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moncrief is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

Scottish habitational surname from a place near Perth, from Scottish Gaelic monadh (“mountain, hill”) + craoibhe, genitive of craobh (“tree”).

Moncrief is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,665 people named Moncrief in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 66,183 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,452.

#7,171

rank among US surnames

4,665

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+4.8%

change since 2000 (was #6,945)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,164	Arzola	4,669	66,127
#7,165	Rook	4,668	66,141
#7,167	Lomas	4,667	66,155
#7,171	Arneson	4,665	66,183
#7,173	Celaya	4,664	66,198
#7,174	Rude	4,661	66,240

Who is named Moncrief

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

71% of people named Moncrief identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 71%
Black (not Hispanic) 23%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 2.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Moncriefs

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Sidney Moncrief
American basketball player-coach, born 1957

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Moncrieff
Moncrieffe

Surnames that sound like Moncrief

Monger

Moncrief has the Soundex code M526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M526.

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Moncrief come from?: Scottish habitational surname from a place near Perth, from Scottish Gaelic monadh (“mountain, hill”) + craoibhe, genitive of craobh (“tree”).
How common is the surname Moncrief?: 4,665 people in the United States had the surname Moncrief in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 66,183 Americans. It ranked 7,171st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Moncrief?: In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Moncrief identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Moncrief?: Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player-coach.
Where is the surname Moncrief most common?: Wikidata records people named Moncrief in the United States.
What type of surname is Moncrief?: Moncrief is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Moncrief getting more or less common?: More common. 4,452 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,665 in 2010, up 4.8%.
What are other spellings of Moncrief?: Moncrieff and Moncrieffe.