More - surname meaning, origin and how common it is

At the 2020 census, 4,794 Americans bore the surname More — 6,759th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 62,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,794
Rank: 6,759th
How common: 1 in 62,300
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

As a Scottish and English surname, variant of Moore.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 52.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 17.2%
Hispanic or Latino 13.3%
Black, not Hispanic 12.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called More

Thomas More (1478–1535)English statesman, lawyer and philosopher
Hannah More (1745–1833)English writer and philanthropist
Kenneth More (1914–1982)British film and stage actor
Benny Moré (1919–1963)Cuban singer
Lester Moré (born 1978)Cuban footballer
Max More (born 1964)American philosopher and futurist

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

Surnames like More

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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.