Moises
Moises was given to 502 boys in 2025, #587 among boys’ names; 31,397 Americans have been recorded with it since 1893 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 29,500 Americans named Moises and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moises by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Moises mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Moises is “a male given name.”
Borrowed from Portuguese Moisés and Spanish Moisés.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Moises?
#587 among boys’ names, 2025
Moises fell from #478 in 2015 to #587 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.33 to 0.29 per 1,000.
912 babies in 2001, the peak
Moises peaked in 2001, when 912 boys were given it, #308 among boys’ names. The 502 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 502 | #587 | 0.29 |
| 2024 | 568 | #523 | 0.33 |
| 2023 | 549 | #540 | 0.32 |
| 2022 | 508 | #577 | 0.29 |
| 2021 | 558 | #527 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 568 | #508 | 0.33 |
| 2019 | 663 | #452 | 0.37 |
| 2018 | 624 | #464 | 0.34 |
| 2017 | 750 | #417 | 0.41 |
| 2016 | 642 | #478 | 0.34 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 626 | #478 | 0.33 |
| 2014 | 634 | #462 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 538 | #506 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 603 | #451 | 0.32 |
| 2011 | 632 | #433 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 652 | #425 | 0.34 |
| 2009 | 780 | #390 | 0.39 |
| 2008 | 825 | #373 | 0.40 |
| 2007 | 862 | #366 | 0.42 |
| 2006 | 896 | #345 | 0.44 |
| 2005 | 835 | #355 | 0.42 |
| 2004 | 781 | #359 | 0.39 |
| 2003 | 797 | #350 | 0.40 |
| 2002 | 818 | #335 | 0.42 |
| 2001 | 912 | #308 | 0.47 |
| 2000 | 889 | #323 | 0.45 |
| 1999 | 779 | #343 | 0.41 |
| 1998 | 691 | #371 | 0.36 |
| 1997 | 614 | #390 | 0.33 |
| 1996 | 580 | #403 | 0.31 |
| 1995 | 585 | #396 | 0.31 |
| 1994 | 579 | #401 | 0.30 |
| 1993 | 588 | #391 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 528 | #424 | 0.26 |
| 1991 | 501 | #442 | 0.25 |
| 1990 | 447 | #466 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 439 | #447 | 0.22 |
| 1988 | 336 | #498 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 320 | #499 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 294 | #517 | 0.16 |
| 1985 | 295 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 296 | #488 | 0.16 |
| 1983 | 289 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 283 | #506 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 311 | #472 | 0.17 |
| 1980 | 285 | #500 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 288 | #489 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 213 | #575 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 220 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 240 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 216 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 202 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 156 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 126 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 129 | #727 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 118 | #761 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 101 | #773 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 98 | #750 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 91 | #766 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 99 | #743 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 88 | #794 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 86 | #814 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 89 | #806 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 85 | #828 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 79 | #864 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 76 | #873 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 74 | #893 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 69 | #913 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,095 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 43 | #1,165 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 58 | #991 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,321 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,086 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 47 | #1,060 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,211 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,155 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,155 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,155 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,285 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,251 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,519 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,251 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,203 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,572 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,399 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,103 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,414 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,665 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,378 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 32 | #1,184 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,479 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,090 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 38 | #1,132 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,073 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,344 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,599 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,274 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 35 | #1,240 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,407 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,624 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,104 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,472 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,024 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,156 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,758 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,941 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,934 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,113 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,790 | 0.01 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,131 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,478 | 0.03 |
| 1893 | 6 | #990 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Moises a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moises has been given almost only to boys: 52 girls in 117 years of records.
Girls and boys named Moises: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moises, and how old are they?
29,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 31,397 Americans ever recorded as Moises. The median Moises alive today is 23 years old; half are between 13 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 41,184 people named Moises (107 women and girls, 41,077 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 26,773 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 94 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 727 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,670 |
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 Moises born?
The states with the most babies named Moises are Texas, California and Florida, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 112 | #340 | 2.1× |
| California | 96 | #365 | 2.8× |
| Florida | 35 | #514 | 1.0× |
| New York | 22 | #679 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 19 | #407 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 18 | #441 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #560 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 16 | #593 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 13 | #557 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 12 | #777 | 0.5× |
Where Moises is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Moises is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.8 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 boys’ 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 Moises with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 75,395 babies since 1880, Moises is the second most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 502 of their 1,109 babies (45%), again the second most given.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Moises
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 Moises and names like it
- Compare Moises and MosesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMoises peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Moises since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Moises.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Moises alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.