Moran

Moran is the 358th most common surname in the United States, shared by 85,840 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,482.

By the numbers

People: 85,840
Rank: 358th
How common: 1 in 3,482
Per 100,000: 28.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

As an Irish surname, an anglicisation of Ó Móráin, from Ó (“descendant”) and Móráin (“of Mórán”), from mór (“large, great”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 61.0%
Hispanic or Latino 32.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Moran

Caitlin Moran (born 1975)English author and broadcaster
Dylan Moran (born 1971)Irish actor and comedian
Crissy Moran (born 1975)American pornographic actress
Jerry Moran (born 1954)United States Senator from Kansas
Erin Moran (1960–2017)American actress
Thomas Moran (1837–1926)American artist
Rubén Morán (1930–1978)Uruguayan footballer
Pauline Moran (born 1947)British actress

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

Surnames like Moran

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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.