Moories Surname
Approximately 10 people bear this surname
Moories Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Moories Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Moories Come From? nationality or country of origin
Moories is borne by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Moories? popularity and diffusion
The surname Moories is the 6,063,924th most common last name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 728,754,592 people. Moories occurs mostly in Africa, where 50 percent of Moories live; 50 percent live in Southern Africa and 50 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is held by 5 people, or 1 in 10,835,541. In South Africa Moories is primarily found in: Western Cape, where 100 percent live. Aside from South Africa this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 30 percent live and England, where 10 percent live.
Moories Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Moories has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Moories surname increased 300 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Moories
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