Moyses
Moyses was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 137 Americans have been recorded with it between 1992 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moyses by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Moyses mean?
Wiktionary, Latin section
Moyses is “a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Moses”
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς (Mōüsês), from earlier disyllabic Μωυσῆς (Mōusês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōšê). Doublet of Mōsēs.
[moːˈyː.seːs]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Latin section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Moyses?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,446, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2001, the peak
Moyses peaked in 2001, when 11 boys were given it, #6,287 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #13,446 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,536 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,501 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,623 | 2.7 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,553 | 4.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,629 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,656 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,470 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,818 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,088 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | #9,620 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,452 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,879 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,287 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,675 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,759 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,649 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,828 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,454 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,159 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Moyses a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moyses has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Moyses: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moyses, and how old are they?
An estimated 135 Americans named Moyses and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 255 people named Moyses (0 women and girls, 255 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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, Moyses is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,109 babies recorded by SSA was a Moyses (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Moyses
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 Moyses and names like it
- Compare Moyses and MosesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMoyses peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Moyses since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Moyses: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Moyses.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Moyses alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.