Moss
Moss was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,332 among boys’ names; 519 Americans have been recorded with it since 1891 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moss by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Moss?
#5,332 among boys’ names, 2025
Moss rose from #10,267 in 2015 to #5,332 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 10.5 per million.
20 babies in 2023, the peak
Moss peaked in 2023, when 20 boys were given it, #5,000 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,332 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,087 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,000 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,563 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,227 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,344 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,657 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,383 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,420 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,962 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #10,267 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,403 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,913 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,581 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,401 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,571 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,688 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,654 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,469 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,810 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,367 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,745 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,501 | 3.1 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,788 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,692 | 2.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,943 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,247 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,293 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,238 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,805 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,266 | 2.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,452 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,280 | 3.8 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,804 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,807 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,912 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,180 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,605 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,035 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,560 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,632 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,844 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,356 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,876 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,905 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,998 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,916 | 8.1 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,642 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,935 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,449 | 6.5 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,048 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,296 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,773 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,704 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,749 | 10.1 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,771 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,399 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,634 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,026 | 8.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,304 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,401 | 13.0 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,820 | 10.7 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,116 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,191 | 16.3 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,622 | 30.5 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,024 | 56.4 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,074 | 49.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Moss a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moss has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Moss: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moss, and how old are they?
An estimated 319 Americans named Moss and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 457 people named Moss (56 women and girls, 401 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 244 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 75,395 babies since 1880, Moss is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 1,109 babies (1.6%), 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 Moss
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 Moss and names like it
- Compare Moss and MosesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMoss peaked in 2023.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Moss since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Moss.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Moss alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.