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    The surname Mouse

    A German surname, carried by 566 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M200

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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). Mouse is more common than 76% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    The surname is sometimes an Americanized spelling of German Maus. The metonym for Disney comes from its icon Mickey Mouse.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 566 people named Mouse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 545,487 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 572.

    #38,948
    rank among US surnames
    566
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1%
    change since 2000 (was #36,807)

    Who is named Mouse

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

    54% of people named Mouse identified as white (not Hispanic), 32% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 54%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 32%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Mouse

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

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Mouse come from?
    The surname is sometimes an Americanized spelling of German Maus. The metonym for Disney comes from its icon Mickey Mouse.
    How common is the surname Mouse?
    566 people in the United States had the surname Mouse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 545,487 Americans. It ranked 38,948th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mouse?
    In the 2010 Census, 54% of people named Mouse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
    Is the surname Mouse getting more or less common?
    Less common. 572 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 566 in 2010, down 1.0%.