Morehouse
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of various places, for example Moorhouse in West Yorkshire, named from Old English mor ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ -i- hus ‘house’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɔɹˌhaʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morehouse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 53K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 79K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from any of various places, for example Moorhouse in West Yorkshire, named from Old English mor ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ -i- hus ‘house’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morehouse counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Morehouse | 2 |
| US United States | — | 6,309 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Morehouse | 355 |
| DZ Algeria | #801 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Morehouse | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Morehouse | 88 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Morehouse | 62 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Morehouse | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Henry Lyman Morehouseb. 1834born 1834; died 1917
- Albert P. Morehouseb. 1835USAmerican politician (1835-1891)
- Oscar Emery Morehouseb. 1857CACanadian politician
- Jim Morehouseb. 1864AUAustralian rules footballer (1864-1914)
- Ward Morehouseb. 1895UStheatre critic, columnist, and screenwriter (1895-1966)
- Chauncey Morehouseb. 1902USAmerican musician (1902-1980)
- Laurence Englemohr Morehouseb. 1913USAmerican teacher
- William Paul Morehouseb. 1929USAmerican artist (1929–1993)
- Lyda Morehouseb. 1967USAmerican writer
- Tim Morehouseb. 1978USAmerican fencer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,513 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.3K | #5,112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.1K | #5,472 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Morehouse mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of various places, for example Moorhouse in West Yorkshire, named from Old English mor ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ -i- hus ‘house’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Morehouse?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɔɹˌhaʊs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Morehouse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Morehouse in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morehouse.
- How common is the name Morehouse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,309 people named Morehouse in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Morehouse compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Morehouse is the 801st most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morehouseThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Morehouse” — the 801st most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.