Morses Surname
Approximately 26 people bear this surname
Morses Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 13 | 1:411,832 | 17,291 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1:33,062,298 | 643,618 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3 | 1:8,125,123 | 158,686 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
Morses (49) may also be a first name.
Morses Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Morses Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Morses is more commonly found in Scotland than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Morses? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,882,373rd most numerous surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 280,290,228 people. The surname Morses occurs mostly in Europe, where 58 percent of Morses live; 58 percent live in Northern Europe and 58 percent live in British Isles. It is also the 1,430,306th most frequently used first name internationally. It is borne by 49 people.
Morses is most numerous in Scotland, where it is carried by 13 people, or 1 in 411,832. In Scotland Morses is primarily concentrated in: Glasgow City, where 77 percent live, Argyll and Bute, where 8 percent live and North Lanarkshire, where 8 percent live. Not including Scotland this last name exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 15 percent live and The United States, where 12 percent live.
Morses Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Morses has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Morses last name decreased 67 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it decreased 33 percent between 1881 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
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- 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 Morses
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