Moon

Moon is the 736th most common surname in the United States, shared by 45,833 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,521.

By the numbers

People: 45,833
Rank: 736th
How common: 1 in 6,521
Per 100,000: 15.3

Where the name comes from

An Americanized form of German Mohn or a similar surname.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 62.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 20.2%
Black, not Hispanic 9.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Moon

Moon Jae-in (born 1953)12th President of the Republic of Korea
Moon Geun-young (born 1987)South Korean actress
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012)Korean religious leader
Keith Moon (1946–1978)English rock musician, drummer of The Who
Katie Moon (born 1991)American pole vaulter
Moon Ga-young (born 1996)South Korean actress
Elizabeth Moon (born 1945)American fiction writer
Moon Seon-min (born 1992)South Korean association football player

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

Surnames like Moon

Also a first name

Moon has been given to 627 American babies as a first name since 1972, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.