How common is the surname Moon?

45,528 people in the United States had the surname Moon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 6,781 Americans. It ranked 758th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Moon?

In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Moon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Who is the most famous person named Moon?

Moon Jae-in, 12th President of the Republic of Korea, followed by Katie Moon.

Where is the surname Moon most common?

Wikidata records people named Moon in the United States, South Korea and Australia and 1 other country.

Is the surname Moon getting more or less common?

More common. 42,062 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 45,528 in 2010, up 8.2%.

Is Moon also a first name?

Yes. Moon is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Moon

An Irish place surname, carried by 45,528 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moon is more common than 99.5% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

* 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”).

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

One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 45,528 people named Moon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 6,781 Americans. That is up 8.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 42,062.

#758

rank among US surnames

45,528

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+8.2%

change since 2000 (was #748)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#749	Hurst	46,244	6,676
#750	Woodard	46,240	6,677
#751	Cortes	46,229	6,679
#752	Shannon	46,147	6,690
#753	Kemp	46,146	6,691
#754	Nolan	46,054	6,704
#755	McCullough	45,852	6,734

Who is named Moon

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

66% of people named Moon identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 66%
Asian and Pacific Islander 19%
Black (not Hispanic) 10%
Two or more races 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Moons

9 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Moon Jae-in
12th President of the Republic of Korea, born 1953
Katie Moon
American pole vaulter, born 1991
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, born 1951
Xavier Moon
American basketball player (born 1995)

Notable Moons come mostly from the United States (6), South Korea (1) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Moon

Moon has the Soundex code M500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M500.

Other Irish surnames

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Questions

Where does the surname Moon come from?: * 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…
How common is the surname Moon?: 45,528 people in the United States had the surname Moon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 6,781 Americans. It ranked 758th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Moon?: In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Moon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Who is the most famous person named Moon?: Moon Jae-in, 12th President of the Republic of Korea, followed by Katie Moon.
Where is the surname Moon most common?: Wikidata records people named Moon in the United States, South Korea and Australia and 1 other country.
What type of surname is Moon?: Moon is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Moon getting more or less common?: More common. 42,062 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 45,528 in 2010, up 8.2%.
Is Moon also a first name?: Yes. Moon is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.