Blackmore

Blackmore is the 8,662nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,634 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 82,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,634
Rank: 8,662nd
How common: 1 in 82,300
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English blæc (“black”) + mōr (“moor”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Blackmore described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.7%
Black, not Hispanic 12.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Blackmore

Ritchie Blackmore (born 1945)British guitarist
Susan Blackmore (born 1951)British writer and academic
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825–1900)English novelist
Clayton Blackmore (born 1964)Welsh footballer
Elizabeth Blackmore (born 1987)Australian actress
Rachael Blackmore (born 1989)Irish National Hunt jockey
Richard Blackmore (1654–1729)English poet and physician

People named Blackmore with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Blackmore

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.