Moore

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Moore, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Demi
• Willis
• Evans
• Shaw
• Robinson
• Bruce
• Jones
• Roberts
• Winters
• Phillips
• Wilson
• Mandy

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Moore is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Mooré

• Spanish surname19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, Italian, Romanian

  Also written Mööre, Möörë, Móore, Möörė, Môôre

• Hindi surname29 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

  Also written More, Mora, Mara, মোর, Moora

• Russian surname33 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Poland, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Polish, Czech

  Also written Моор, Мур, Moor, Мооре, Mur

• Greek surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Moor, Moir, Mur, Μουρ, Μούρ

86 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Moore is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, O Mordha ‘noble’; sept of Leix. Conor O’More defeated the Earl of Essex in 1183; the tomb of Malachi O’More is in their Cistercian abbey.

  as a name·Irish family names

• In English, from Middle English more ‘moor’, ‘marsh’, ‘fen’, ‘area of uncultivated land’ (Old English mor), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in such a place or a habitational name from any of the various places named with this word, as for example Moore in Cheshire or More in Shropshire.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, from a personal name (Latin Maurus ‘Moor’). This name was borne by various early Christian saints. The personal name was introduced to England by the Normans, but it was never as popular in England as it was on the Continent.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, from Old French more ‘Moor’ (Latin maurus). The Latin term denoted a native of northwestern Africa, but in medieval England the word came to be used informally as a nickname for any swarthy or dark-skinned person.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Mordha ‘descendant of Mordha', a byname meaning ‘great’, ‘proud’, or ‘stately’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Thomas Mooreb. 1779IEIrish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)
• George Edward Mooreb. 1873GBEnglish philosopher (1873–1958)
• Marianne Mooreb. 1887USAmerican poet (1887–1972)
• Roger Mooreb. 1927GBEnglish actor (1927–2017)
• Bobby Mooreb. 1941GBEnglish association football player (1941–1993)
• Michael Mooreb. 1954USAmerican filmmaker and author (born 1954)
• Julianne Mooreb. 1960USBritish-American actress and author
• Demi Mooreb. 1962USAmerican actress and producer (born 1962)
• Jill Kellyb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
• Mandy Mooreb. 1984USAmerican actress and singer (born 1984)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Moore mean, and where does it come from?

(i) From places named Moore/More or a resident on a moor/fen; (ii) from the personal name More; (iii) nickname for a dark-complexioned person; (iv) Scottish/Welsh nickname for a large man; (v) from Ir… Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

In which country does Moore have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 724 thousand people named Moore, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moore.

How do you pronounce Moore?

In English /mɔː(ɹ)/ (Wiktionary).

How common is the name Moore?

In the United States, the national register counted 724,374 people named Moore in 2010, about 1 in 459 residents.

How common is Moore compared with other names?

In the United States, Moore is the 16th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.