Mo
Mo is the 5,920th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,612 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 53,300.
By the numbers
- People
- 5,612
- Rank
- 5,920th
- How common
- 1 in 53,300
- Per 100,000
- 1.9
Where the name comes from
Origin Chinese
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Mo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Mo
- Agnez Mo (born 1986)Indonesian singer and actress
- Mo Yan (born 1955)Chinese novelist and screenwriter
- MØ (born 1988)Danish singer and songwriter
- Mo Tae-bum (born 1989)South Korean speed skater
- Keb' Mo' (born 1951)American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter
- Mo Ji-soo (born 1969)South Korean short track speed skater
- Teresa Mo (born 1960)Hong Kong actress
- Timothy Mo (born 1950)novelist
People named Mo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Mo
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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.