Morgan
276,366 people in the United States were counted with the surname Morgan in the 2020 census, making it the 69th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,082.
By the numbers
- People
- 276,366
- Rank
- 69th
- How common
- 1 in 1,082
- Per 100,000
- 92.5
Where the name comes from
from Old Welsh Morcant, possibly from *mor (“sea”) (Welsh môr) or *mọr (“great”) (owl maur) + *kantos (“circle”) (Welsh cant), meaning “great chief” or “sea chief”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Morgan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Morgan
- Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945)American biologist
- J. P. Morgan (1837–1913)American financier, banker, and art collector
- Alex Morgan (born 1989)American soccer player
- Henry Morgan (1631–1688)Welsh pirate
- Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871)British mathematician and logician
- Lewis H. Morgan (1818–1881)American anthropologist
- Michèle Morgan (1920–2016)French actress
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born 1966)American actor
People named Morgan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Morgan
Also a first name
Morgan has been given to 269,269 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1995. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.