Muirhead
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Muirhead, a Scottish place name meaning ‘end of the moor’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mjʊəɹhɛd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muirhead is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 147K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 456K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147K (inferred from the name graph)
2,265 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
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 Muirhead, a Scottish place name meaning ‘end of the moor’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muirhead 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,265 | 1 in 147K | 2.3K | Muirhead | 7 |
| ES Spain | 32 | 1 in 1.6M | 32 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 12 | 1 in 456K | 12 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 12 | 1 in 3.2M | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
2,265 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Muirhead is also recorded in 2 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 at the head of the moor; first attested William de Murehede 1401 Black
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A Scottish surname.
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)
- Alexander Muirheadb. 1848GBBritish engineer (1848–1920)
- Anthony Muirheadb. 1890GBBritish politician (1890-1939)
- James Muirheadb. 1925AUAustralian Judge and Royal Commissioner (1925–1999)
- Bruce Muirheadb. 1954CACanadian historian
- Oliver Muirheadb. 1957GBBritish actor
- Doug Muirheadb. 1962CACanadian soccer player
- Russell Muirheadb. 1965USAmerican politician
- Ben Muirheadb. 1983GBBritish footballer (born 1983)
- Eve Muirheadb. 1990GBScottish curler
- Thomas Muirheadb. 1995GBScottish curler
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,445 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,165 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,868 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 32 | #61,479 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 32 | #60,133 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #52,196 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #167,978 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #202,552 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #108,830 |
Reference works 3
- 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 Muirhead mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Muirhead, a Scottish place name meaning ‘end of the moor’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Muirhead?
- A machine transcription gives /mjʊəɹhɛd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Muirhead have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Muirhead, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muirhead.
- Where is Muirhead most common?
- Muirhead is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 147 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Muirhead?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,265 people named Muirhead in 2010, about 1 in 147 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muirheadThe 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, “Muirhead”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.