Explore the Family Name Moot

The meaning of Moot

1. Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a fishmonger, from moot ‘fillet, slice, cut’. 2. Flemish: perhaps a variant of Motte. Alternatively, of the same origin as the name in 1 above. The surname Moot is very rare in Belgium.

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How common is the last name Moot in the United States?

According to data from the Decennial U.S. Census, the popularity of the surname "Moot" has seen a slight decrease between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, it ranked 59,769 in popularity with a count of 316 occurrences for every 100,000 people. By 2010, however, it had slipped to a rank of 64,559, representing a change of -8.01%. The total count of people carrying this surname also declined by 2.53% to 308, reducing its proportion per 100k to 0.1 from 0.12, a change of -16.67%.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#59,769	#64,559	-8.01%
Count	316	308	-2.53%
Proportion per 100k	0.12	0.1	-16.67%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Moot

The ethnicity associated with the surname "Moot" also varied over the same ten-year period as per the Decennial U.S. Census data. In 2000, 94.62% of those with this surname identified as White, 1.58% as Black, and there were no recorded instances of individuals identifying as Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, or American Indian and Alaskan Native. In 2010, however, the percentage of Whites slightly decreased to 93.83%, while those identifying as Asian/Pacific Islander appeared on the chart at 3.57%. There was also a new category of individuals who identified with two or more races, making up 1.95% of the Moot surname bearers. No changes were noted for the Hispanic category, and the percentage of Blacks dropped to zero.

	2000	2010	Change
White	94.62%	93.83%	-0.83%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	3.57%	0%
Two or More Races	0%	1.95%	0%
Hispanic	0%	0%	0%
Black	1.58%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%