Morat surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Morat surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 144 people carried this name — #112,967 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,000,000 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 564 people named Morat.

17 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 56 départements, most often Pyrénées-Orientales.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 17
Pyrénées-Orientales 103
Savoie 55
Paris 50
Saône-et-Loire 34
Rhône 33
Aisne 30
Cher 27
Loire-Atlantique 25

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

39 people named Morat live in Switzerland.

They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Landschaft.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Basel-Landschaft 17
Geneva 7
Lucerne 5
Aargau 4
Basel-Stadt 3
Vaud 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Morat is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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