Moishe

#3,914 in 2025Boys' name

Drawn out [of water], through משה

Moishe has been given to 1,201 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #3,914 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Moishe, 2025

1 in 118,000

Moishe over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Moishe: meaning, origin, and history

Drawn out [of water], through משה

Yiddish

What Moishe means

Moishe belongs to the name family reached through Moishe → משה → משה. Its meaning is “drawn out [of water]”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Yiddish משה (moyshe), from Hebrew משה (moshé).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Moishe (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Moishe is used in English. Its origins include Yiddish.

Moishe comes through Yiddish משה and Hebrew משה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include משה.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Moishe is pronounced /ˈmɔɪʃə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,201 boys were recorded with the name Moishe between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,924 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,371 in 2020 to #3,914 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,062 in 2015 to #3,914 in 2025.

How common is Moishe?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 118,000; 28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 61,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #3,914; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 82,069 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Moishe 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moishe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Moishes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Moishe was born before 2003 — so the typical Moishe is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 52.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 1,201; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (259).

Is Moishe 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: −339; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +457; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: −852; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.74×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 73.7%; Peak was 2015 (38)
Years since peak: 10; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,924; 1975

Spellings of Moishe

Moishe is not the most common spelling — Moises is, with 52.2% against Moishe's 2.0%.

Moises52.2%31,345
Moshe30.0%18,017
Mose13.2%7,935
Moishe2.0%1,201
Moise1.6%935
Misha1.0%603

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 Moishe is used

Across 1910–2025, Moishe was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 15,106 across all states with data.

77 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 14,286

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. Moishe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Moishe around the world

Where Moishe 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
1996–2025
#1,226
in 2025
Canada
2008–2024
#2,855
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Moishe by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #3,914
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 457
Best rank ever: #1,924; 1975
Peak year: 2015; 38 that year
First recorded: 1950
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,201
Count in 2025: 28

Names similar to Moishe

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

Moise Moishy Menashe Moiz Moises Ashe Kashe Moshe Moices Moir Cashe Moisses Moisha Zishe Rashe Tinashe Simbarashe

Sibling names for Moishe

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

For a sister

Karleigh Kendyl Anabel Leigha Cailyn Anabelle Adelle Elin

For a brother

Caesar Hamilton Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Gavyn Jamarcus Nevin

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