Moise
Moise was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,050 among boys’ names; 935 Americans have been recorded with it since 1902 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Moise mean?
Wiktionary, Romanian section
Moise is “a male given name, equivalent to English Moses”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Romanian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Moise?
#6,050 among boys’ names, 2025
Moise rose from #6,950 in 2015 to #6,050 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 8.8 per million.
22 babies in 2023, the peak
Moise peaked in 2023, when 22 boys were given it, #4,686 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,050 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,580 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,686 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,048 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,428 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,881 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,650 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,973 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,232 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,409 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,950 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,672 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,378 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,940 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,543 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,567 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,618 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,545 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,989 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,759 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,777 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,613 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,128 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,274 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,054 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,959 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,271 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,661 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,531 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,359 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,432 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,845 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,649 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,855 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,391 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,577 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,957 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,358 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,790 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,038 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,725 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,592 | 10.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,552 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,618 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,347 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,039 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,282 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,876 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,759 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,404 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,633 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,427 | 10.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,290 | 4.3 |
| 1970 | 11 | #3,012 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,492 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,280 | 4.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,263 | 2.7 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,925 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,489 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,326 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,182 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,601 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,948 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,052 | 2.8 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,048 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,789 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,813 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,415 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,996 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,994 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,146 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,491 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,157 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,998 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,602 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,271 | 12.6 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,631 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,175 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,674 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,163 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,743 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,397 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,630 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,018 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,449 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,488 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,564 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,697 | 11.7 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,673 | 26.6 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,103 | 48.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Moise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moise has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Moise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moise, and how old are they?
An estimated 714 Americans named Moise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 15 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,647 people named Moise (35 women and girls, 1,612 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 646 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Moise rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,162 babies since 1880, Moise is the second most given (9.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 87 babies (17%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Moise and names like it
- Compare Moise and MoseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMoise peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Moise since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Moise.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Moise alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.