Meaning not yet researched.
Moises: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 502 in 2025. Its best rank was #308 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #308 in 2001; #587 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Moises in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#587 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #308.
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Moises: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 502 boys in 2025. Peak: #308 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 912 (2001).
In 2025, 502 US boys were named Moises, making it the 587th most common boys’ name of the year, down 64 places from #523 in 2024. That is 66 fewer than the 568 boys named Moises in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #308, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 912. For comparison, it was #478 in 2015 and #1,156 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Moises in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 6 babies. In all, 31,397 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,416 babies named Moises.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,932 US boys were named Moises; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 750. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,403 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Moises ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #261 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Moses (43,342 babies since 1880), Moshe (18,038 babies since 1880) and Musa (6,140 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Moises in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 10 | #261 | #485 |
| Texas | 112 | #340 | #334 |
| California | 96 | #365 | #266 |
| Arizona | 19 | #407 | #354 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #408 | — |
| New Jersey | 18 | #441 | #449 |
| Idaho | 5 | #474 | — |
| Oregon | 7 | #512 | #481 |
| Florida | 35 | #514 | #394 |
| Washington | 13 | #557 | #453 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #560 | #649 |
| Nevada | 5 | #569 | #433 |
| Kansas | 6 | #571 | #647 |
| Illinois | 16 | #593 | #480 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #605 | — |
| Maryland | 8 | #614 | #568 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #649 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #660 | #538 |
| New York | 22 | #679 | #563 |
| Georgia | 12 | #777 | #650 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #826 | #909 |
| Alabama | 5 | #841 | #787 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #863 | #542 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #898 | #1,010 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,039 | #869 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,050 | #611 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 502 | #587 |
| 2024 | — | — | 568 | #523 |
| 2023 | — | — | 549 | #540 |
| 2022 | — | — | 508 | #577 |
| 2021 | — | — | 558 | #527 |
| 2020 | — | — | 568 | #508 |
| 2019 | — | — | 663 | #452 |
| 2018 | — | — | 624 | #464 |
| 2017 | — | — | 750 | #417 |
| 2016 | — | — | 642 | #478 |
| 2015 | — | — | 626 | #478 |
| 2014 | — | — | 634 | #462 |
| 2013 | — | — | 538 | #506 |
| 2012 | — | — | 603 | #451 |
| 2011 | — | — | 632 | #433 |
| 2010 | — | — | 652 | #425 |
| 2009 | — | — | 780 | #390 |
| 2008 | — | — | 825 | #373 |
| 2007 | — | — | 862 | #366 |
| 2006 | — | — | 896 | #345 |
| 2005 | — | — | 835 | #355 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,939 | 781 | #359 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,531 | 797 | #350 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,831 | 818 | #335 |
| 2001 | — | — | 912 | #308 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,742 | 889 | #323 |
| 1999 | — | — | 779 | #343 |
| 1998 | — | — | 691 | #371 |
| 1997 | — | — | 614 | #390 |
| 1996 | — | — | 580 | #403 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,984 | 585 | #396 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,878 | 579 | #401 |
| 1993 | — | — | 588 | #391 |
| 1992 | — | — | 528 | #424 |
| 1991 | — | — | 501 | #442 |
| 1990 | — | — | 447 | #467 |
| 1989 | — | — | 439 | #447 |
| 1988 | — | — | 336 | #498 |
| 1987 | — | — | 320 | #499 |
| 1986 | — | — | 294 | #517 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,194 | 295 | #507 |
| 1984 | — | — | 296 | #488 |
| 1983 | — | — | 289 | #497 |
| 1982 | — | — | 283 | #506 |
| 1981 | — | — | 311 | #472 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,873 | 285 | #500 |
| 1979 | — | — | 288 | #489 |
| 1978 | — | — | 213 | #575 |
| 1977 | — | — | 220 | #563 |
| 1976 | — | — | 240 | #519 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,671 | 216 | #549 |
| 1974 | — | — | 202 | #565 |
| 1973 | — | — | 156 | #637 |
| 1972 | — | — | 126 | #716 |
| 1971 | — | — | 129 | #727 |
| 1970 | — | — | 118 | #761 |
| 1969 | — | — | 101 | #773 |
| 1968 | — | — | 98 | #750 |
| 1967 | — | — | 91 | #766 |
| 1966 | — | — | 99 | #743 |
| 1965 | — | — | 88 | #794 |
| 1964 | — | — | 86 | #814 |
| 1963 | — | — | 89 | #806 |
| 1962 | — | — | 85 | #829 |
| 1961 | — | — | 79 | #865 |
| 1960 | — | — | 76 | #874 |
| 1959 | — | — | 74 | #894 |
| 1958 | — | — | 69 | #914 |
| 1957 | — | — | 49 | #1,096 |
| 1956 | — | — | 43 | #1,166 |
| 1955 | — | — | 58 | #992 |
| 1954 | — | — | 33 | #1,322 |
| 1953 | — | — | 46 | #1,087 |
| 1952 | — | — | 47 | #1,061 |
| 1951 | — | — | 37 | #1,212 |
| 1950 | — | — | 39 | #1,156 |
| 1949 | — | — | 38 | #1,156 |
| 1948 | — | — | 39 | #1,156 |
| 1947 | — | — | 33 | #1,286 |
| 1946 | — | — | 32 | #1,252 |
| 1945 | — | — | 20 | #1,520 |
| 1944 | — | — | 29 | #1,251 |
| 1943 | — | — | 33 | #1,203 |
| 1942 | — | — | 21 | #1,572 |
| 1941 | — | — | 24 | #1,399 |
| 1940 | — | — | 36 | #1,103 |
| 1939 | — | — | 23 | #1,414 |
| 1938 | — | — | 18 | #1,665 |
| 1937 | — | — | 29 | #1,260 |
| 1936 | — | — | 24 | #1,378 |
| 1935 | — | — | 38 | #1,054 |
| 1934 | — | — | 32 | #1,184 |
| 1933 | — | — | 27 | #1,299 |
| 1932 | — | — | 38 | #1,108 |
| 1931 | — | — | 23 | #1,479 |
| 1930 | — | — | 41 | #1,090 |
| 1929 | — | — | 38 | #1,132 |
| 1928 | — | — | 43 | #1,073 |
| 1927 | — | — | 31 | #1,344 |
| 1926 | — | — | 23 | #1,599 |
| 1925 | — | — | 33 | #1,274 |
| 1924 | — | — | 35 | #1,240 |
| 1923 | — | — | 28 | #1,407 |
| 1922 | — | — | 20 | #1,808 |
| 1921 | — | — | 23 | #1,624 |
| 1920 | — | — | 16 | #2,105 |
| 1919 | — | — | 25 | #1,473 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #3,025 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,157 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,759 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,942 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,935 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,114 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,791 |
| 1909 | — | — | 8 | #1,131 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,479 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #991 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).