Moishe — #3702 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Moishe

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,171 babies named Moishe between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Moishe currently holds the #3702 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 38 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Moishe performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 259 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Moishe shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 882 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Moishe in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Moishe in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,171 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.