# Moors (surname)

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

A surname from Irish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Irish |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,164 |
| US rank (2010) | 22,183 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 265,245 people |
| Change since 2000 | +21% (966 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Moors 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) | 82% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 6.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.1% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 4.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Moors in Belgium.

## People named Moors

- Roel Moors, Belgian basketball player (born 1978)
- Fleur Moors, Belgian cyclist

## Similar surnames

Morris, Morse, Morais, Moores, Morriss, Moraes, Moroz, Moris, Morehouse, Moyers, Mork, Moorhouse.

## 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.