Given name & surname
Moore
“a dark-skinned man; one who is noble”
Moore is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “a dark-skinned man; one who is noble.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “a dark-skinned man; one who is noble.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Moore through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 28 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1913
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1949. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1913. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 472 as a first name in 2020; 696,384 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Moore’s family of names
In English usage, Moore as a surname has a diminutive in Mooring. Moore has a related form in Moor. Moore has a related form in Mooring.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Moore
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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