The Moan surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 702 people carried this name — #32,710 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 416,700 people counted. That is up 12% from 628 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 160 people named Moan.
2 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Finistère.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
434 people named Moan is counted in Norway.
Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Moan,
with a public archive behind them.
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Andreas Moan 1882–1959 · politician
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Johan Moan 1900–1987
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Obert Benjamin Moan 1917–1970 · university teacher
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Henny Moan 1936–2024 · actor
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Torgeir Moan 1944– · engineer
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Johan Moan 1944– · researcher
Wikidata (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Moan.
- Mizrahi 2,190 · U.S. census
- Mizzi 375 · U.S. census
- Mkrtchyan 896 · U.S. census
- Mladenovic 262 · U.S. census
- Mlynarczyk 357 · U.S. census
- Mo 3,983 · U.S. census
- Moch 540 · U.S. census
- Mochel 305 · U.S. census
- Mochon 113 · U.S. census
- Mock 15,847 · U.S. census
- Mockel 107 · U.S. census
- Mode 1,035 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Moan is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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