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    The surname Musco

    A Sicilian surname, carried by 617 people in the United States.

    2 syllables 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). Musco is more common than 77.6% of them.

    Origin

    Sicilian origin

    From the Sicilian surname Muscu, a surname derived from muscu (“moss”). Compare English Musk.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 617 people named Musco in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 500,398 Americans. That is down 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 689.

    #36,286
    rank among US surnames
    617
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -10.4%
    change since 2000 (was #31,704)

    Who is named Musco

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

    90% of people named Musco identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Musco

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Musco come from?
    From the Sicilian surname Muscu, a surname derived from muscu (“moss”). Compare English Musk.
    How common is the surname Musco?
    617 people in the United States had the surname Musco in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 500,398 Americans. It ranked 36,286th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Musco?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Musco identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Musco getting more or less common?
    Less common. 689 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 617 in 2010, down 10%.