Moesha
Moesha was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 1,067 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Moesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 27 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Moesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,386, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
426 babies in 1996, the peak
Moesha peaked in 1996, when 426 girls were given it, #548 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,386 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,826 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,516 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,222 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,264 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,901 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,852 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,214 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,526 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,321 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 61 | #2,414 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 122 | #1,410 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 211 | #944 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 426 | #548 | 0.24 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Moesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Moesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moesha, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,067 Americans ever recorded as Moesha. The median Moesha alive today is 29 years old; half are between 27 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 909 people named Moesha (905 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,055 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 419 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 627 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Moesha born?
The states with the most babies named Moesha are Florida, North Carolina and Georgia, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 116 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| North Carolina | 77 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Georgia | 66 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Mississippi | 57 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| South Carolina | 57 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Illinois | 53 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 46 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 45 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 43 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Alabama | 40 | not ranked | 2.4× |
Where Moesha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Moesha is most over-represented in Florida: since 1996 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Moesha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Moesha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Moesha and names like it
- Compare Moesha and KadijahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMoesha peaked in 1996.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Moesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Moesha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Moesha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.