Moreland
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Moreland’, a place-name meaning ‘marshy land’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Moreland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Barbados it is the 18th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 19K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24K
- CACanada≈1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Moreland itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 415 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, 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)
‘Person from Moreland’, a place-name meaning ‘marshy land’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moreland 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 | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Moreland | 3 |
| US United States | — | 17,832 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Moreland | 415 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Moreland | 161 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Moreland | 95 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Moreland | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 482as Morland | 1 in 11K | 482 | — | 2 |
| BB Barbados | #18 | — | — | — | Moreland | 3 |
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; the bbc-pronouncing-dictionary-british-names register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Moreland is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, dweller on the moor-land; first attested Edith de la Morland 1257 MELS
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
habitational name from any of various places, notably in the Borders region and in Kinross, named Moreland, from Old English mor ‘marsh’, ‘fen’, ‘moor’ -i- land ‘land’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Archaic form of moorland.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Harrison Morelandb. 1868GBBritish civil servant in India and historian (1868-1938)
- Mantan Morelandb. 1902USAmerican actor (1902–1973)
- Geoffrey Morelandb. 1914GBEnglish footballer (1914-1996)
- Jackie Morelandb. 1938USAmerican basketball player (1938–1971)
- Robert Morelandb. 1941GBBritish politician (born 1941)
- J. P. Morelandb. 1948USAmerican theologian
- Keith Morelandb. 1954USAmerican baseball player
- Mitch Morelandb. 1985USAmerican baseball player
- Eric Morelandb. 1991USAmerican basketball player (born 1991)
- Peggy Morelandb. 2000USAmerican writer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #2,023 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,921 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,067 |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Moreland mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Moreland’, a place-name meaning ‘marshy land’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Moreland have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 thousand people named Moreland in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moreland.
- How common is the name Moreland?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,832 people named Moreland in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Moreland compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Moreland is the 18th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morelandThe 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, “Moreland” — the 18th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.