Moishe
Moishe was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,914 among boys’ names; 1,201 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Moishe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 11 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moishe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Moishe mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Moishe is “a male given name from Yiddish.”
From Yiddish משה (moyshe), from Hebrew משה (moshé).
/ˈmɔɪʃə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Moishe?
#3,914 among boys’ names, 2025
Moishe fell from #3,062 in 2015 to #3,914 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.8 to 16.4 per million.
38 babies in 2015, the peak
Moishe peaked in 2015, when 38 boys were given it, #3,062 among boys’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,914 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,575 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,526 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,665 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,785 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,371 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,486 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,851 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,418 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,577 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,062 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,349 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,268 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,499 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,309 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,631 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,534 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,797 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,760 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,356 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,283 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,027 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,921 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,430 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,821 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,490 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,225 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,801 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,164 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,958 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,386 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,450 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,911 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,255 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,323 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,260 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,192 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,483 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,911 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,655 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,036 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,904 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,176 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,425 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,942 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,053 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,030 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,024 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,184 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,199 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,924 | 16.0 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,893 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,963 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,845 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,766 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,441 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,493 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,163 | 4.3 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,551 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,279 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,394 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,194 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,176 | 3.7 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,700 | 2.9 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,286 | 3.6 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,534 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Moishe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moishe has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Moishe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moishe, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,201 Americans ever recorded as Moishe. The median Moishe alive today is 22 years old; half are between 11 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 933 people named Moishe (7 women and girls, 926 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 989 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 47 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 166 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 234 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 338 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 357 |
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 Moishe born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 882 | not ranked | 11.0× |
Where Moishe is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Moishe is most over-represented in New York: since 1950 it was given 11.0 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 Moishe 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 62,862 babies since 1880, Moishe is the third most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 1,356 babies (2.1%), again the third 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 Moishe
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 Moishe and names like it
- Compare Moishe and MosesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMoishe peaked in 2015.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Moishe since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Moishe.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Moishe alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.