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    The surname Moody

    A surname, carried by 64,429 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /ˈmudi/ 2 syllables Soundex M300

    Moody: #519 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Moody #519, 64,429 people Moody: #519 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott Moody #519, 64,429 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moody is more common than 99.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 64,429 people named Moody in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 4,792 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 62,344.

    #519
    rank among US surnames
    64,429
    people in 2010
    22
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.3%
    change since 2000 (was #479)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #510Suarez66,0134,677
    #511Bowers66,0034,678
    #512Orozco65,9044,685
    #513Salas65,4684,716
    #514Cobb65,1254,741
    #515Gibbs65,0644,745
    #516Andrade65,0374,747

    Who is named Moody

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

    71% of people named Moody identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 71%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 23%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Mowdy

    Surnames that sound like Moody

    Moody has the Soundex code M300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Moody?
    64,429 people in the United States had the surname Moody in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 4,792 Americans. It ranked 519th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Moody?
    In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Moody identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
    How do you pronounce Moody?
    Moody is /ˈmudi/, 2 syllables.
    Is the surname Moody getting more or less common?
    More common. 62,344 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 64,429 in 2010, up 3.3%.
    What are other spellings of Moody?
    Mowdy.