Moishy
Moishy was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,514 among boys’ names; 210 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moishy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Moishy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Moishy is “a diminutive of the male given name Moshe.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Moishy?
#7,514 among boys’ names, 2025
Moishy rose from #9,283 in 2015 to #7,514 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 6.4 per million.
25 babies in 2021, the peak
Moishy peaked in 2021, when 25 boys were given it, #4,188 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,514 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,988 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,999 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,354 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,188 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,802 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,909 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,375 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,612 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,378 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,283 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,942 | 5.2 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,897 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,674 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,716 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,832 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,441 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Moishy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moishy has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Moishy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moishy, and how old are they?
An estimated 208 Americans named Moishy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 19,449 babies since 1880, Moishy is the third most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 767 babies (1.4%), 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 Moishy
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 Moishy and names like it
- Compare Moishy and MosheBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMoishy peaked in 2021.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Moishy since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Moishy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Moishy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.