Mose
Mose was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,212 among boys’ names; 7,990 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,290 Americans named Mose and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 33 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mose by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mose?
#4,212 among boys’ names, 2025
Mose rose from #6,573 in 2015 to #4,212 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 14.6 per million.
168 babies in 1919, the peak
Mose peaked in 1919, when 168 boys were given it, #453 among boys’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,212 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,698 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,688 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,355 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,941 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,613 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,297 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,041 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,701 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,235 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,573 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,345 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,564 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,803 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,121 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,591 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,992 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,188 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,496 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,457 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,956 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,716 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,555 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,276 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,403 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,223 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,934 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,564 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,121 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,168 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,649 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,846 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,375 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,856 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,207 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,409 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,555 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,734 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,791 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,338 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,566 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,670 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,637 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,093 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,072 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,095 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,138 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 25 | #2,001 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,043 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 32 | #1,667 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,264 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 25 | #1,872 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,676 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 38 | #1,380 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 33 | #1,510 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 27 | #1,684 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,260 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,140 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 48 | #1,067 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 33 | #1,339 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 29 | #1,448 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,322 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,111 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 49 | #1,102 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 34 | #1,380 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,185 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 50 | #1,095 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 55 | #1,032 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,122 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 49 | #1,087 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 57 | #999 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 54 | #1,025 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 66 | #886 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 91 | #740 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 93 | #722 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 84 | #750 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 73 | #806 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 86 | #726 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 75 | #796 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 84 | #715 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 88 | #647 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 88 | #663 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 72 | #770 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 106 | #614 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 67 | #761 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 79 | #683 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 64 | #760 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 90 | #630 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 66 | #754 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 63 | #771 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 78 | #684 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 75 | #707 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 92 | #607 | 0.09 |
| 1932 | 111 | #563 | 0.11 |
| 1931 | 82 | #663 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 103 | #604 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 97 | #617 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 118 | #564 | 0.11 |
| 1927 | 129 | #547 | 0.11 |
| 1926 | 104 | #616 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 100 | #637 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 114 | #597 | 0.10 |
| 1923 | 97 | #653 | 0.09 |
| 1922 | 144 | #515 | 0.13 |
| 1921 | 150 | #507 | 0.14 |
| 1920 | 122 | #563 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 168 | #453 | 0.17 |
| 1918 | 152 | #484 | 0.15 |
| 1917 | 114 | #553 | 0.12 |
| 1916 | 138 | #483 | 0.16 |
| 1915 | 128 | #491 | 0.15 |
| 1914 | 112 | #453 | 0.17 |
| 1913 | 91 | #454 | 0.18 |
| 1912 | 99 | #387 | 0.23 |
| 1911 | 80 | #297 | 0.35 |
| 1910 | 71 | #295 | 0.37 |
| 1909 | 63 | #284 | 0.38 |
| 1908 | 65 | #263 | 0.42 |
| 1907 | 56 | #283 | 0.38 |
| 1906 | 48 | #295 | 0.36 |
| 1905 | 58 | #262 | 0.44 |
| 1904 | 70 | #225 | 0.55 |
| 1903 | 58 | #243 | 0.49 |
| 1902 | 59 | #240 | 0.48 |
| 1901 | 49 | #248 | 0.46 |
| 1900 | 75 | #233 | 0.50 |
| 1899 | 59 | #222 | 0.56 |
| 1898 | 44 | #272 | 0.36 |
| 1897 | 43 | #275 | 0.38 |
| 1896 | 45 | #275 | 0.38 |
| 1895 | 62 | #222 | 0.53 |
| 1894 | 59 | #223 | 0.51 |
| 1893 | 63 | #218 | 0.56 |
| 1892 | 68 | #215 | 0.56 |
| 1891 | 55 | #216 | 0.54 |
| 1890 | 57 | #220 | 0.51 |
| 1889 | 57 | #221 | 0.52 |
| 1888 | 62 | #224 | 0.51 |
| 1887 | 55 | #209 | 0.54 |
| 1886 | 69 | #197 | 0.62 |
| 1885 | 50 | #235 | 0.46 |
| 1884 | 68 | #197 | 0.59 |
| 1883 | 65 | #183 | 0.62 |
| 1882 | 77 | #176 | 0.68 |
| 1881 | 63 | #184 | 0.63 |
| 1880 | 52 | #231 | 0.47 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mose a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mose has been given almost only to boys: 55 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mose: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mose, and how old are they?
2,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 29% of the 7,990 Americans ever recorded as Mose. The median Mose alive today is 58 years old; half are between 33 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 2,151 people named Mose (30 women and girls, 2,121 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,589 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 294 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 746 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 423 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 321 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 237 |
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 Mose born?
The states with the most babies named Mose are Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 789 | not ranked | 6.9× |
| Alabama | 692 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Georgia | 520 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Louisiana | 379 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| South Carolina | 262 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 170 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 167 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arkansas | 141 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 117 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 114 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Mose is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mose is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 6.9 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 Mose 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,162 babies since 1880, Mose is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 87 babies (29%), the second 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mose
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 Mose and names like it
- Compare Mose and MoiseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMose peaked in 1919.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mose since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Mose.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Mose alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.