# Moorhouse (surname)

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

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,530 |
| US rank (2010) | 18,184 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 201,794 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.8% (1,489 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Moorehouse, Morehouse |

## Etymology

From Old English mōr (“moor, marsh, fen”) + hūs (“house”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Moorhouse 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) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.3% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Moorhouse in Australia and the United States.

## People named Moorhouse

- George Moorhouse, American soccer player (1901-1943)
- Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australian film director
- Frank Moorhouse, Australian writer

## Similar surnames

Morehouse, Morocho, Moores, Moors, Morris, Myers, Marsh, Meyers, Marks, Morse, Mares, Mark.

## 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.