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Moise

#6,050 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Moses

Moise has been given to 935 babies in the U.S. since 1902. In 2025 it ranked #6,050 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Moise, 2025

1 in 221,000

Moise over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Moise: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Moses

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Moise means

Moise is a form of Moses.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Moise → Moses. The family’s proposed meaning is “to give birth to”, recorded in English with the source elements msj.

Origin, language, and formation

Moise is used in Romanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Moses.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 935 boys were recorded with the name Moise between 1902 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,103 in 1902.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,881 in 2020 to #6,050 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,950 in 2015 to #6,050 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Moise?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,050
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Moise sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Moises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Moise was born before 1989 — so the typical Moise is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
16.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
744
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Choose a decade

1990s — 16.1% of all recorded uses (151).

Is Moise 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
−470
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−169
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+900
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.2%
Peak was 2023 (22)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,103
1902

Spellings of Moise

Moise is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 63.5% against Moise's 0.10%.

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 Moise is used

Across 1910–2025, Moise was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 97,512 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Moise has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Moise around the world

Where Moise 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 & Wales
    2007–2025
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2022
    #414
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2011–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • France
    1900–2025
    #843
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Moise by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,050
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 169
Best rank ever
#1,103
1902
Peak year
2023
22 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
935
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Moise

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Moise

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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