Find out how popular the last name Morga is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Morga.

Morga, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Morga surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Morga in America

Morga is the 21288th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Morga surname appeared 1,231 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Morga.

We can also compare 2010 data for Morga to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Morga

The surname MORGA is believed to have originated in Spain during the medieval period. It is derived from the Spanish word "morga," which means a boundary or landmark. This name was likely adopted by someone who lived near a prominent landmark or boundary marker.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name MORGA can be found in the "Becerro de las Behetrias," a medieval census of landowners and their properties compiled in the 14th century. This document mentions a certain Juan de Morga who owned land in the region of Castile.

In the 15th century, a notable figure named Rodrigo de Morga was a distinguished military commander who served under King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella during the Reconquista, the campaign to expel the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula.

During the 16th century, the name MORGA appeared in various historical records and documents related to the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas. One notable figure was Juan de Morga (1559-1636), a Spanish lawyer and colonial administrator who served as the Lieutenant Governor of the Philippines from 1594 to 1604.

Another prominent individual with the surname MORGA was Pedro de Morga (1574-1636), a Spanish explorer and navigator who accompanied the famous explorer Alvaro de Mendaña on his expeditions to the Solomon Islands and the Marquesas Islands in the late 16th century.

In the 18th century, there was a notable Spanish military engineer named Sebastián Fernández de Medrano y Morga (1655-1721), who was responsible for designing and overseeing the construction of several fortifications and coastal defenses in the Spanish colonies of the Caribbean and South America.

The surname MORGA has also been associated with various place names in Spain, such as the town of Morga in the Basque Country, which may have influenced the adoption of the name by some families in that region.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Morga

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Morga.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Morga was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Morga has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Morga was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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