Moore (surname)

Moore
Family name
Meaning	"stately and noble"
Region of origin	Ireland, Great Britain
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Moore is a popular English-language surname. It is the 34th most common surname in Australia, 32nd most common in England, and was the 16th most common surname in the United States in 2000.

It can have several meanings and derivations, as it appeared as a surname long before written language had developed in most of the population, resulting in a variety of spellings.

Variations of the name can appear as O'More or Moor; as well as the Scottish Gaelic originations , and ; the Manx Gaelic origination Moar; the Irish Gaelic originations O'More and Ó Mórda; and the later Irish variants O'Moore' or 'Moore and the French de la Mora (William De La More).

The similarly pronounced surname Mohr is of Germanic lineage and is not related to the Gaelic/English variations.

Some bearers of this name pronounce it as /mɔːr/ or /mɔər/, while others use /mʊər/.

In the United States, "Moore" ranked 9th among all surnames in the 1990 census, accounting for 0.3% of the population.

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