The surname Morelock
A surname, carried by 2,512 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex M642
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,512 people named Morelock in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 122,908 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,388.
#12,384
rank among US surnames
2,512
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+5.2%
change since 2000 (was #12,004)
Who is named Morelock
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Morelock identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Morelock has the Soundex code M642, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M642.
Questions
- How common is the surname Morelock?
- 2,512 people in the United States had the surname Morelock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 122,908 Americans. It ranked 12,384th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Morelock?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Morelock identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Morelock getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,388 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,512 in 2010, up 5.2%.