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    The surname Moyes

    A surname, carried by 1,339 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M200

    Moyes: #19,997 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Moyes #19,997, 1,339 people Moyes: #19,997 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Moyes #19,997, 1,339 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Moyes is more common than 87.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,339 people named Moyes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 230,579 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,326.

    #19,997
    rank among US surnames
    1,339
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1%
    change since 2000 (was #19,007)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,992Couillard1,340230,407
    #19,997Jeansonne1,339230,579

    Who is named Moyes

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

    92% of people named Moyes identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Moyes

    Moyes 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 Moyes?
    1,339 people in the United States had the surname Moyes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 230,579 Americans. It ranked 19,997th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Moyes?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Moyes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Moyes getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,326 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,339 in 2010, up 1.0%.