Moffat

3,057 people in the United States were counted with the surname Moffat in the 2020 census, making it the 10,050th most common in the country. That is about one person in 97,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,057
Rank: 10,050th
How common: 1 in 97,800
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From Scottish Gaelic magh (“field, plain”) + fada (“long”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Moffat

Steven Moffat (born 1961)Scottish television writer and producer
Donald Moffat (1930–2018)British actor
Robert Moffat (1795–1883)Scottish missionary
John Moffat (born 1932)British-Canadian physicist
Allan Moffat (1939–2025)Canadian-Australian racing driver

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

Surnames like Moffat

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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.