How common is the surname Mumaw?

1,398 people in the United States had the surname Mumaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 220,848 Americans. It ranked 19,348th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mumaw?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mumaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Mumaw getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,420 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,398 in 2010, down 1.5%.

The surname Mumaw

A surname, carried by 1,398 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mumaw is more common than 88.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,398 people named Mumaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 220,848 Americans. That is down 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,420.

#19,348

rank among US surnames

1,398

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-1.5%

change since 2000 (was #18,101)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,341	Knapik	1,399	220,690
#19,348	Casarrubias	1,398	220,848

Who is named Mumaw

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

96% of people named Mumaw identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mumaw

Mumaw has the Soundex code M500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M500.

Questions

How common is the surname Mumaw?: 1,398 people in the United States had the surname Mumaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 220,848 Americans. It ranked 19,348th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mumaw?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mumaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Mumaw getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,420 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,398 in 2010, down 1.5%.