Morehouse

English

Etymology

Variant of Moorhouse.

Proper noun

Morehouse (countable and uncountable, plural Morehouses)

1. A surname.
2. A city in New Madrid County, Missouri, United States.
3. A town in Hamilton County, New York, United States.
4. A ghost town in Morrow County, Ohio, United States.

Derived terms

• Morehouse Parish

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Morehouse is the 5513^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6309 individuals. Morehouse is most common among White (91.49%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Morehouse”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 618.