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    The surname Moorhouse

    An English place surname, carried by 1,530 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M620

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moorhouse is more common than 88.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

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

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

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,530 people named Moorhouse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 201,794 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,489.

    #18,184
    rank among US surnames
    1,530
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.8%
    change since 2000 (was #17,457)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,177Albury1,531201,663
    #18,184Colvard1,530201,794

    Who is named Moorhouse

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

    93% of people named Moorhouse identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Moorhouses

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • George Moorhouse
      American soccer player (1901-1943)
    • Jocelyn Moorhouse
      Australian film director, born 1960
    • Frank Moorhouse
      Australian writer, 1938–2022

    Notable Moorhouses come mostly from Australia (2) and the United States (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Moorhouse

    Moorhouse has the Soundex code M620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M620.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Moorhouse come from?
    From Old English mōr (“moor, marsh, fen”) + hūs (“house”).
    How common is the surname Moorhouse?
    1,530 people in the United States had the surname Moorhouse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 201,794 Americans. It ranked 18,184th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Moorhouse?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Moorhouse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Moorhouse?
    George Moorhouse, American soccer player (1901-1943), followed by Jocelyn Moorhouse.
    Where is the surname Moorhouse most common?
    Wikidata records people named Moorhouse in Australia and the United States.
    What type of surname is Moorhouse?
    Moorhouse is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Moorhouse getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,489 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,530 in 2010, up 2.8%.
    What are other spellings of Moorhouse?
    Moorehouse and Morehouse.