Moshe
Moshe was given to 728 boys in 2025, #436 among boys’ names; 18,038 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,400 Americans named Moshe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moshe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Moshe mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Moshe is “a male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, equivalent to English Moses.”
Borrowed from Hebrew. Transliteration of Hebrew משה (moshé), sometimes conjectured to derive from Egyptian msj (“to give birth to”), a common element in Egyptian names of the form ‘[name of deity] is the one who bore him’.
/ˈmoʊʃɛ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Moshe?
#436 among boys’ names, 2025
Moshe rose from #536 in 2015 to #436 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.28 to 0.43 per 1,000.
728 babies in 2025, the peak
Moshe peaked in 2025, when 728 boys were given it, #436 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 642 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 728 | #436 | 0.43 |
| 2024 | 642 | #482 | 0.37 |
| 2023 | 667 | #459 | 0.39 |
| 2022 | 619 | #492 | 0.35 |
| 2021 | 626 | #477 | 0.36 |
| 2020 | 554 | #518 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 555 | #513 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 549 | #517 | 0.30 |
| 2017 | 536 | #528 | 0.29 |
| 2016 | 529 | #547 | 0.28 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 533 | #536 | 0.28 |
| 2014 | 523 | #535 | 0.27 |
| 2013 | 511 | #519 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 499 | #527 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 472 | #542 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 455 | #558 | 0.24 |
| 2009 | 431 | #600 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 388 | #635 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 440 | #583 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 419 | #585 | 0.20 |
| 2005 | 338 | #645 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 353 | #610 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 359 | #599 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 311 | #634 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 276 | #663 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 277 | #653 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 262 | #659 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 267 | #655 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 265 | #636 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 268 | #634 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 207 | #744 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 216 | #711 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 194 | #749 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 169 | #805 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 193 | #731 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 212 | #699 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 181 | #732 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 191 | #682 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 226 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 191 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 118 | #821 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 124 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 134 | #749 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 110 | #846 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 126 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 104 | #876 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 117 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 116 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 104 | #842 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 107 | #805 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 87 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 84 | #882 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 72 | #954 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 59 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 56 | #1,099 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 52 | #1,151 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,024 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,053 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,268 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 28 | #1,475 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 26 | #1,547 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 24 | #1,645 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 26 | #1,570 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,269 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 45 | #1,193 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 60 | #992 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,056 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 55 | #1,033 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,110 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 46 | #1,127 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 24 | #1,596 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,742 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,420 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 24 | #1,573 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 20 | #1,714 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 23 | #1,565 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,799 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,291 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,047 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,094 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,038 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,890 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,654 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Moshe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moshe has been given almost only to boys: 21 girls in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Moshe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moshe, and how old are they?
17,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 18,038 Americans ever recorded as Moshe. The median Moshe alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 13,574 people named Moshe (62 women and girls, 13,512 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,921 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 408 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,030 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,520 |
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 Moshe born?
The states with the most babies named Moshe are New York, New Jersey and Florida, with 95% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 441 | #22 | 10.2× |
| New Jersey | 207 | #29 | 6.7× |
| Florida | 17 | #872 | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #776 | 0.1× |
| California | 9 | #1,779 | 0.2× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,221 | 0.0× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,237 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,415 | 0.1× |
Where Moshe is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Moshe is most over-represented in New York: since 1942 it was given 10.2 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 Moshe 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, Moshe is the second most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 728 of their 1,356 babies (54%), the 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 Moshe
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 Moshe and names like it
- Compare Moshe and MosesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMoshe peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Moshe since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Moshe.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Moshe alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.