How common is the surname Moshier?

2,050 people in the United States had the surname Moshier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,608 Americans. It ranked 14,537th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Moshier?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Moshier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Moshier getting more or less common?

More common. 1,917 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,050 in 2010, up 6.9%.

The surname Moshier

A surname, carried by 2,050 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moshier is more common than 91% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,050 people named Moshier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 150,608 Americans. That is up 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,917.

#14,537

rank among US surnames

2,050

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+6.9%

change since 2000 (was #14,328)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,528	Choquette	2,052	150,461
#14,532	Anspach	2,051	150,534
#14,537	Wagnon	2,050	150,608
#14,545	Dolin	2,049	150,681

Who is named Moshier

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

94% of people named Moshier identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Moshier

Moshier has the Soundex code M260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M260.

Questions

How common is the surname Moshier?: 2,050 people in the United States had the surname Moshier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,608 Americans. It ranked 14,537th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Moshier?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Moshier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Moshier getting more or less common?: More common. 1,917 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,050 in 2010, up 6.9%.