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The surname Mounsey

A Norman place surname, carried by 571 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M520

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mounsey is more common than 76.2% of them.

Origin

Norman origin

Habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Monceaux, in northern France.

Mounsey is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 571 people named Mounsey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 540,710 Americans. That is up 8.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 528.

#38,691
rank among US surnames
571
people in 2010
0.2
per 100,000 Americans
+8.1%
change since 2000 (was #39,240)

Who is named Mounsey

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

88% of people named Mounsey identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 88%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 6.7%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
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 Mounsey

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

Other Norman surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Mounsey come from?
Habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Monceaux, in northern France.
How common is the surname Mounsey?
571 people in the United States had the surname Mounsey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 540,710 Americans. It ranked 38,691st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mounsey?
In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Mounsey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Mounsey?
Mounsey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Mounsey getting more or less common?
More common. 528 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 571 in 2010, up 8.1%.