Moselle
#12,768 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Moselle has been given to 273 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #12,768 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Moselle, 2025
1 in 474,000
Moselle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Moselle?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,768
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Moselle sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moselle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Moselles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Moselle was born before 1920 — so the typical Moselle is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 33.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 12.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 44
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (91).
Is Moselle 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
- +278
- Places climbed
- 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
- 43.8%
- Peak was 1919 (16)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.3% average annual change
Spellings of Moselle
Moselle is not the most common spelling — Giselle is, with 31.8% against Moselle's 0.17%.
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 Moselle is used
Across 1910–2025, Moselle was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,228,092 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
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. Moselle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Moselle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Moselle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Moselle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.