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    The surname Muha

    A Slovene surname, carried by 843 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M000

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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). Muha is more common than 82.5% of them.

    Origin

    Slovene origin

    From Slovene Muha, Serbo-Croatian muha, Belarusian муха (muxa), Ukrainian муха (muxa), Czech moucha, Slovak mucha, or Polish mucha, all from Proto-Slavic *muxa (“fly”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 843 people named Muha in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 366,246 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 830.

    #28,333
    rank among US surnames
    843
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.6%
    change since 2000 (was #27,361)

    Who is named Muha

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

    95% of people named Muha identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Muha

    Muha has the Soundex code M000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M000.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Muha come from?
    From Slovene Muha, Serbo-Croatian muha, Belarusian муха (muxa), Ukrainian муха (muxa), Czech moucha, Slovak mucha, or Polish mucha, all from Proto-Slavic *muxa (“fly”).
    How common is the surname Muha?
    843 people in the United States had the surname Muha in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 366,246 Americans. It ranked 28,333rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Muha?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Muha identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Muha getting more or less common?
    More common. 830 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 843 in 2010, up 1.6%.
    What are other spellings of Muha?
    Mucha and Mukha.