The surname Moronta
A Spanish place surname, carried by 1,086 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex M653
Origin
Spanish origin
Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Moronta.
Moronta is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,086 people named Moronta in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 284,296 Americans. That is up 45% since 2000, when the Census counted 747.
Who is named Moronta
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Moronta identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 2.3% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 96%
- White (not Hispanic) 2.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Moronta has the Soundex code M653, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M653.
Other Spanish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Moronta come from?
- Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Moronta.
- How common is the surname Moronta?
- 1,086 people in the United States had the surname Moronta in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 284,296 Americans. It ranked 23,414th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Moronta?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Moronta identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 2.3% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Moronta?
- Moronta is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Moronta getting more or less common?
- More common. 747 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,086 in 2010, up 45%.