Morse

At the 2020 census, 39,517 Americans bore the surname Morse — 854th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,564.

By the numbers

People: 39,517
Rank: 854th
How common: 1 in 7,564
Per 100,000: 13.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Morse described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.4%
Black, not Hispanic 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Morse

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791–1872)American inventor and painter
David Morse (born 1953)American actor
Steve Morse (born 1954)American guitarist
Robert Morse (1931–2022)American actor
Marston Morse (1892–1977)American mathematician
Barry Morse (1918–2008)British-Canadian actor
Margaret Morse Nice (1883–1974)American ornithologist
Neal Morse (born 1960)American rock musician

People named Morse with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Morse

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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.