Moore

696,384 people in the United States were counted with the surname Moore in the 2020 census, making it the 18th most common in the country. That is about one person in 429.

By the numbers

People: 696,384
Rank: 18th
How common: 1 in 429
Per 100,000: 233.0

Where the name comes from

Origin English, Irish

The surname has converged from several different meanings; see Moore on Wikipedia.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.8%
Black, not Hispanic 27.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Moore

Demi Moore (born 1962)American actress and producer
Julianne Moore (born 1960)British-American actress and author
Roger Moore (1927–2017)English actor
Michael Moore (born 1954)American filmmaker and author
Henry Moore (1898–1986)English sculptor
Alan Moore (born 1953)British comic book author
Thomas Moore (1779–1852)Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017)American actress and television producer

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

Surnames like Moore

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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.