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    The surname Mowatt

    A surname, carried by 1,272 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M300

    Mowatt: #20,770 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Mowatt #20,770, 1,272 people Mowatt: #20,770 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mowatt #20,770, 1,272 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mowatt is more common than 87.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,272 people named Mowatt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 242,724 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,057.

    #20,770
    rank among US surnames
    1,272
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +20.3%
    change since 2000 (was #22,688)

    Who is named Mowatt

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

    49% of people named Mowatt identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 49%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 41%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.2%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mowatt

    Mowatt has the Soundex code M300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Mowatt?
    1,272 people in the United States had the surname Mowatt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 242,724 Americans. It ranked 20,770th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mowatt?
    In the 2010 Census, 49% of people named Mowatt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Mowatt getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,057 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,272 in 2010, up 20%.