Moseley

16,633 people in the United States were counted with the surname Moseley in the 2020 census, making it the 2,115th most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,000.

By the numbers

People: 16,633
Rank: 2,115th
How common: 1 in 18,000
Per 100,000: 5.6

Where the name comes from

A variant of Mosley.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.7%
Black, not Hispanic 16.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Moseley

Henry Moseley (1887–1915)English physicist
William Moseley (born 1987)English actor
Bill Moseley (born 1951)American actor
Mark Moseley (born 1964)American actor
Jonny Moseley (born 1975)American freestyle skier
Henry Nottidge Moseley (1844–1891)British naturalist and botanist

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

Surnames like Moseley

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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.