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Moyses

Boys' name

Form of Moses

Moyses has been given to 137 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 2001, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Moyses, 2021

1 in 678,000

Moyses over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Moyses: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Moses

Hebrew

What Moyses means

Moyses is a form of Moses.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Moyses is used in Biblical Latin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Moyses is used in Latin. Its origins include Hebrew.

Moyses comes through Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς and Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Moses and Mōsēs.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Moyses is pronounced [moːˈyː.seːs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 137 boys were recorded with the name Moyses between 1992 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2001; its best national rank was #6,287 in 2001.

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 Moyses?

Moyses had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Moyses 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moyses. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Moysess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Moyses was born before 2005 — so the typical Moyses is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
137
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Moyses 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (11)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,287
2001

Spellings of Moyses

Moyses is not the most common spelling — Myles is, with 42.8% against Moyses's 0.09%.

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 Moyses is used

Across 1910–2025, Moyses was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,089,544 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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

Moyses by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,287
2001
Peak year
2001
11 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
137
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Moyses

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

ManasesEulisesRamessesJessesUlysesRamesesMoyerMossesUlissesHulisesRamsesRamssesJosesUlyessesNersesMoissesUlisesUlessesMoisesUlyssesMosesMoyosoreoluwa

Sibling names for Moyses

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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