How common is the surname Mounce?

2,862 people in the United States had the surname Mounce in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,878 Americans. It ranked 11,092nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mounce?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Mounce identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Mounce getting more or less common?

More common. 2,706 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,862 in 2010, up 5.8%.

Is Mounce also a first name?

Yes. Mounce is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Mounce

A surname, carried by 2,862 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mounce is more common than 93.2% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname of Norman origin, from Moyon in Manche, from Old French Moion, from the Latin anthroponym Modius possibly suffixed with -onem or Gaulish *dūnon (“fort”). Compare Moon. * As a German and Alemannic German surname, Americanized from Manz.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,862 people named Mounce in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 107,878 Americans. That is up 5.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,706.

#11,092

rank among US surnames

2,862

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+5.8%

change since 2000 (was #10,811)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,086	Mauck	2,863	107,840
#11,092	Mounce	2,862	107,878
#11,095	Loewen	2,861	107,915
#11,099	Lasater	2,860	107,953
#11,101	Granda	2,859	107,991

Who is named Mounce

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

95% of people named Mounce identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mounce

Mounce has the Soundex code M520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M520.

Questions

Where does the surname Mounce come from?: * As an English surname of Norman origin, from Moyon in Manche, from Old French Moion, from the Latin anthroponym Modius possibly suffixed with -onem or Gaulish *dūnon (“fort”). Compare Moon. * As a German and Alemannic German surname, Americanized from Manz.
How common is the surname Mounce?: 2,862 people in the United States had the surname Mounce in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,878 Americans. It ranked 11,092nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mounce?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Mounce identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Mounce getting more or less common?: More common. 2,706 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,862 in 2010, up 5.8%.
Is Mounce also a first name?: Yes. Mounce is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.