How common is the surname Musser?

9,820 people in the United States had the surname Musser in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,440 Americans. It ranked 3,615th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Musser?

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

Is the surname Musser getting more or less common?

More common. 9,354 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,820 in 2010, up 5.0%.

The surname Musser

A surname, carried by 9,820 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Musser is more common than 97.8% of them.

Origin

German surname, Americanized from Moser.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,820 people named Musser in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 31,440 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,354.

#3,615

rank among US surnames

9,820

people in 2010

3.3

per 100,000 Americans

+5%

change since 2000 (was #3,496)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,606	Lebron	9,843	31,367
#3,607	Schott	9,842	31,370
#3,608	Kuykendall	9,841	31,373
#3,609	Ye	9,839	31,380
#3,610	Chou	9,834	31,396
#3,611	Caswell	9,827	31,418
#3,612	Weinberg	9,825	31,424

Who is named Musser

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

96% of people named Musser 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 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Musser

Musser has the Soundex code M260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M260.

Questions

Where does the surname Musser come from?: German surname, Americanized from Moser.
How common is the surname Musser?: 9,820 people in the United States had the surname Musser in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,440 Americans. It ranked 3,615th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Musser?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Musser identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Musser getting more or less common?: More common. 9,354 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,820 in 2010, up 5.0%.