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    The surname Mousa

    A surname, carried by 1,165 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M200

    Mousa: #22,173 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Mousa #22,173, 1,165 people Mousa: #22,173 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mousa #22,173, 1,165 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mousa is more common than 86.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,165 people named Mousa in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 265,018 Americans. That is up 68% since 2000, when the Census counted 692.

    #22,173
    rank among US surnames
    1,165
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +68.4%
    change since 2000 (was #31,592)

    Who is named Mousa

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

    86% of people named Mousa identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as two or more races and 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Two or more races 5.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mousa

    Mousa has the Soundex code M200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Mousa?
    1,165 people in the United States had the surname Mousa in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,018 Americans. It ranked 22,173rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mousa?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Mousa identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Mousa getting more or less common?
    More common. 692 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,165 in 2010, up 68%.