Morocho

At the 2020 census, 3,379 Americans bore the surname Morocho — 9,253rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 88,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,379
Rank: 9,253rd
How common: 1 in 88,500
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Morocho. This surname is mostly found in Ecuador.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 97.4%
White, not Hispanic 1.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.09%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.06%

Surnames like Morocho

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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.