Moesha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Moesha has been given to 1,067 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 426 recorded.
Babies named Moesha, 2014
1 in 741,000
Moesha over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Moesha?
Moesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 741,000
- 5 of 3,706,812 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,874 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Moesha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Moeshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Moesha was born before 1997 — so the typical Moesha is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 76.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,067
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 76.9% of all recorded uses (820).
Is Moesha rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (426)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.3% average annual change
Moesha’s breakout year
Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.
In 1996, 426 girls were named Moesha — about #548 that year — roughly 6.4× as many as in the surrounding years, before it settled back. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders
Spellings of Moesha
Moesha is not the most common spelling — Marsha is, with 52.4% against Moesha's 0.54%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Moesha is used
Across 1910–2025, Moesha was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 154,579 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 33,333
- 2Florida1 in 50,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 4South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 5Alabama1 in 100,000
- 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 7District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 8Georgia1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Moesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Moesha around the world
Where Moesha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2006#4,157in 2006
- Ireland1999–1999#528in 1999
- France2000–2018#6,696in 2018
- Canada1996–2001#2,269in 2001
- South Australia1997–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Moesha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Moesha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Moesha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.