Moscoso

Moscoso is the 10,629th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,874 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 104,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,874
Rank: 10,629th
How common: 1 in 104,000
Per 100,000: 0.96

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Galician

From Spanish Moscoso, from Galician Moscoso.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 86.8%
White, not Hispanic 7.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Moscoso

Mireya Moscoso (born 1946)Panama's first female president
Gustavo Moscoso (born 1955)Chilean footballer
Javier Moscoso (1934–2025)Spanish politician

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

Surnames like Moscoso

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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.