Moses — #504 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Moses

The Social Security Administration has registered 42,685 babies named Moses between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Moses currently holds the #504 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 669 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Moses performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,783 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Moses shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,074 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Moses in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Moses 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 42,685 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.