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Mozes

Boys' name

Form of Moses

Mozes has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2007, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Mozes, 2019

1 in 434,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mozes: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Moses

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mozes means

Mozes is a form of Moses.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mozes is used in Dutch.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmoː.zəs/ for Mozes.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mozes → 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, 74 boys were recorded with the name Mozes between 1999 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2007; its best national rank was #6,944 in 2007.

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 Mozes?

Mozes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 434,000
8 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 224,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
300,847 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mozes 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 2019 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 300,847 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mozes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mozess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mozes was born before 2011 — so the typical Mozes is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
74
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.7% of all recorded uses (39).

Is Mozes 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (12)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,944
2007

Spellings of Mozes

Mozes is not the most common spelling — Miles is, with 44.0% against Mozes's 0.03%.

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.

Mozes around the world

Where Mozes 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
    2013–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Mozes 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
#6,944
2007
Peak year
2007
12 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
74
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mozes

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

MozzyMoziahMozziMozartMozellMozelMozelleUlizesRamzes

Sibling names for Mozes

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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