Muse

At the 2020 census, 12,381 Americans bore the surname Muse — 2,831st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,100.

By the numbers

People: 12,381
Rank: 2,831st
How common: 1 in 24,100
Per 100,000: 4.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 54.1%
Black, not Hispanic 37.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Muse

Clarence Muse (1889–1979)American actor and director

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

Surnames like Muse

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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.