Moses

What Moses means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Moses yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #468 in 2015 to #515 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Moses?

US: Falling: down from #468 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #629 in 2015, #627 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 111 boys got the name (#119 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,930 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,609 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (2.2 per 1,000 boys), MT (1.33 per 1,000 boys), NM (0.92 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Moses is #515 in the US and #627 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.0% of US babies named Moses were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Moises502 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Moses

Boys

• Solomon#422“peace”^*
• Hezekiah#485“Yahu is My Strength”^*
• Simon#230“sixpence coin”^*
• Zion#142Editor’s note Up from #227 in 2015 to #142 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 680 US boys in the 2025 records
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025
• Isaias#426Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #426 vs #3,256 in 2025

For a sister

• Eve#519Editor’s note Down from #470 in 2015 to #519 in 2025 in the US
• Lilith#277Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #586 in 2015, #277 in 2025
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Ezra#833Editor’s note Up from #1,199 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US
• Azariah#630“Yah Has Helped”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Moses’s. Rank is US 2025.