Mozelle
Mozelle was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,378 among girls’ names; 5,355 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mozelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mozelle?
#14,378 among girls’ names, 2025
Mozelle entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,378 in 2025.
254 babies in 1920, the peak
Mozelle peaked in 1920, when 254 girls were given it, #417 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,378 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,924 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,985 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,241 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,260 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,507 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,027 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,840 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,774 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,429 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 | #13,870 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,844 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,630 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,685 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,110 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,636 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,636 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,637 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,644 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,167 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,093 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,966 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,932 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,113 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,015 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,386 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,670 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,571 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,310 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,366 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,784 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,113 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,502 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,438 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,300 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,439 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 53 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 47 | #1,080 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 47 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 50 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 54 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 55 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 43 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 76 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 75 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 84 | #712 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 91 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1931 | 93 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 116 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1929 | 108 | #675 | 0.10 |
| 1928 | 128 | #623 | 0.11 |
| 1927 | 147 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 152 | #577 | 0.13 |
| 1925 | 149 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1924 | 197 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1923 | 201 | #489 | 0.17 |
| 1922 | 210 | #475 | 0.17 |
| 1921 | 230 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1920 | 254 | #417 | 0.21 |
| 1919 | 236 | #424 | 0.21 |
| 1918 | 212 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1917 | 203 | #455 | 0.19 |
| 1916 | 201 | #447 | 0.19 |
| 1915 | 175 | #466 | 0.18 |
| 1914 | 153 | #442 | 0.20 |
| 1913 | 139 | #420 | 0.22 |
| 1912 | 117 | #436 | 0.21 |
| 1911 | 75 | #478 | 0.18 |
| 1910 | 84 | #435 | 0.21 |
| 1909 | 56 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1908 | 47 | #544 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 53 | #494 | 0.17 |
| 1906 | 36 | #599 | 0.12 |
| 1905 | 44 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1904 | 33 | #597 | 0.12 |
| 1903 | 22 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 36 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1901 | 30 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 18 | #910 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 15 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 18 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 14 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 14 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 15 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 11 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,096 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,065 | 0.04 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1884 | 6 | #992 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mozelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mozelle has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 95 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mozelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mozelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 681 Americans named Mozelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (13% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 68 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,014 people named Mozelle (975 women and girls, 39 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,022 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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 Mozelle born?
The states with the most babies named Mozelle are Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 892 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| North Carolina | 885 | not ranked | 5.1× |
| Georgia | 671 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| South Carolina | 388 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Alabama | 280 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Virginia | 262 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Oklahoma | 144 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Arkansas | 61 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 55 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Mississippi | 48 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Mozelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mozelle is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 5.1 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 girls’ 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 Mozelle 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 7,178 babies since 1880, Mozelle is the most given (75% of them).
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 Mozelle
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 Mozelle and names like it
- Compare Mozelle and MozellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMozelle peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mozelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Mozelle.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Mozelle alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with MMost given first.