# Moon (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/moon/  
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 | Irish |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 45,528 |
| US rank (2010) | 758 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 6,781 people |
| Change since 2000 | +8.2% (42,062 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* A variant of Mohan, from Irish. * A habitational name of Norman origin from Moyon in La Manche. Compare Mounce. * An Americanized form of German Mohn or a similar surname. * A variant of Mun, from Korean. * A variant Romanization of Chinese 文 (Wén), 萬 /万 (Wàn), and 滿 /满 (Mǎn). * Possibly from Cantonese 滿 /满 (mun⁵, “full; complete”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Moon 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) | 66% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 10% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 19% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Moon in the United States, South Korea, Australia and the United Kingdom.

## People named Moon

- Moon Jae-in, 12th President of the Republic of Korea
- Katie Moon, American pole vaulter
- Elizabeth Moon, American fiction writer (born 1945)
- Jamario Moon, American basketball player (born 1980)
- Edgar Moon, Australian tennis player (1904–1976)
- Guy Moon, American composer (1962–2026)
- Warren Moon, American gridiron football player (born 1956)
- Alan R. Moon, British board game designer
- Xavier Moon, American basketball player (born 1995)

## Similar surnames

Mooney, Moen, Money, Mohn, Mon, Monn, Mona, Mohan, Mowen, Mann, Mahoney, Mena.

## 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.