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    The surname Morrissette

    A surname, carried by 3,219 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex M623

    Morrissette: #10,015 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Morrissette #10,015, 3,219 people Morrissette: #10,015 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Morrissette #10,015, 3,219 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Morrissette is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,219 people named Morrissette in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 95,913 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,072.

    #10,015
    rank among US surnames
    3,219
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.8%
    change since 2000 (was #9,703)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,006Cortinas3,22295,824
    #10,011Frawley3,22195,854
    #10,013Eisele3,22095,884
    #10,015Ducote3,21995,913
    #10,019Billman3,21895,943
    #10,021Meltzer3,21696,003
    #10,023Baynes3,21596,033

    Who is named Morrissette

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

    73% of people named Morrissette identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 73%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Morrissette

    Morrissette has the Soundex code M623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M623.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Morrissette?
    3,219 people in the United States had the surname Morrissette in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,913 Americans. It ranked 10,015th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Morrissette?
    In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Morrissette identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Morrissette getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,072 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,219 in 2010, up 4.8%.