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Mose

#4,212 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Moses

Mose has been given to 7,990 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,212 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 168 recorded.

Babies named Mose, 2025

1 in 133,000

Mose over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mose: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Moses

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mose means

Mose is a form of Moses.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Moses.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,935 boys were recorded with the name Mose between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 168 in 1919; its best national rank was #176 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,613 in 2020 to #4,212 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,573 in 2015 to #4,212 in 2025.

In the United States, 55 girls were recorded with the name Mose between 1914 and 1944. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1923; its best national rank was #3,373 in 1934.

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 Mose?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,212
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mose 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mose. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Moses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mose was born before 1928 — so the typical Mose is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,191
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 14.8% of all recorded uses (1,175).

Is Mose 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
+2,486
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,401
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,361
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.92×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.9%
Peak was 1919 (168)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#176
1882

Spellings of Mose

Mose is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 31.3% against Mose's 0.42%.

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 Mose is used

Across 1910–2025, Mose was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,778 boys, against 1 in 28,932 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

036 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 2,778
  2. 2Alabama1 in 4,545
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 8,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 9,091
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 10,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 12,500
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 33,333
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 33,333

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

Mose around the world

Where Mose 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
    2023–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1970–1970
    #540
    in 1970

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Mose

People whose public names include Mose, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mose by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,212
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,401
Best rank ever
#176
1882
Peak year
1919
168 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,935
Count in 2025
25

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,373
1934
Peak year
1923
8 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1944
All-time count
55
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mose

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

MosheMosesMossMosiahAmbroseRoseMostafaMosaJoseMosiMosieJuanjoseMoshaMosleyMoshehMosesePurposeMosbyMossesBoseMossimoHoseMoshoodMelrose

Names with a curve like Mose

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mose, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NewtonColumbusGarfieldWinfieldEddDewittGeneralClemDockOraLymanGustave

Sibling names for Mose

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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