# Money (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/money/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 6,420 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,421 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 48,091 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.5% (6,261 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun money. Compare Minter, Monier. * As an Irish surname, variant of Mooney. * As a French surname, variant of Monnet, itself a variant of Monet.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Money in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 9.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Similar surnames

Moon, Mooney, Moen, Maney, Mohn, Mauney, Mohney, Mon, Manney, Monn, Mona, Mahoney.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.