Meaning not yet researched.
Moses: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 583 in 2025. Its best rank was #119 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #119 in 1880; #515 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Moses in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#515 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #119.
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Moses: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 583 boys in 2025. Peak: #119 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 669 (2016).
In 2025, 583 US boys were named Moses, making it the 515th most common boys’ name of the year, down 15 places from #500 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 612 boys named Moses in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #119, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 669, in 2016. For comparison, it was #468 in 2015 and #397 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Moses in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 111 babies with the name. In all, 43,342 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,789 babies named Moses.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,926 US boys were named Moses; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 669. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,930 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Moses ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #185 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Moises (31,397 babies since 1880), Moshe (18,038 babies since 1880) and Musa (6,140 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Moishe, Moussa and Moise are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Amos, Mose and Moss.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Moishe (1,201), Moussa (1,096), Moise (935), Moyses (137), Mozes (74), Mosheh (71), Mosese (67), Mosses (28), Moices (26), Moisses (12).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 5 | #185 | #243 |
| Montana | 5 | #268 | — |
| Connecticut | 10 | #316 | — |
| Washington | 23 | #334 | #361 |
| Oregon | 12 | #342 | #302 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #347 | — |
| Iowa | 10 | #365 | #548 |
| California | 86 | #385 | #333 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #406 | #447 |
| Arizona | 18 | #424 | #341 |
| Maryland | 12 | #429 | #437 |
| Colorado | 14 | #432 | #433 |
| Kansas | 8 | #457 | — |
| New York | 36 | #468 | #301 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #479 | — |
| Texas | 70 | #484 | #387 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #539 | #780 |
| Virginia | 14 | #548 | #488 |
| Ohio | 19 | #552 | #639 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #568 | #371 |
| Nevada | 5 | #570 | — |
| Georgia | 18 | #578 | #889 |
| Michigan | 14 | #594 | #700 |
| Indiana | 11 | #609 | #470 |
| Florida | 28 | #614 | #669 |
| Missouri | 9 | #630 | #642 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #650 | — |
| Illinois | 14 | #669 | #553 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #685 | — |
| New Jersey | 10 | #686 | #572 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #693 | #761 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #706 | #805 |
| Alabama | 6 | #735 | #552 |
| Utah | 5 | #777 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,107 | #650 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,380 | 583 | #515 |
| 2024 | — | — | 612 | #500 |
| 2023 | — | — | 537 | #546 |
| 2022 | — | — | 580 | #514 |
| 2021 | — | — | 572 | #513 |
| 2020 | — | — | 595 | #494 |
| 2019 | — | — | 562 | #510 |
| 2018 | — | — | 586 | #492 |
| 2017 | — | — | 630 | #473 |
| 2016 | — | — | 669 | #460 |
| 2015 | — | — | 643 | #468 |
| 2014 | — | — | 587 | #482 |
| 2013 | — | — | 606 | #464 |
| 2012 | — | — | 486 | #540 |
| 2011 | — | — | 505 | #515 |
| 2010 | — | — | 515 | #502 |
| 2009 | — | — | 544 | #500 |
| 2008 | — | — | 562 | #490 |
| 2007 | — | — | 606 | #456 |
| 2006 | — | — | 618 | #441 |
| 2005 | — | — | 481 | #512 |
| 2004 | — | — | 493 | #495 |
| 2003 | — | — | 504 | #491 |
| 2002 | — | — | 517 | #463 |
| 2001 | — | — | 545 | #445 |
| 2000 | — | — | 520 | #458 |
| 1999 | — | — | 463 | #481 |
| 1998 | — | — | 426 | #503 |
| 1997 | — | — | 402 | #510 |
| 1996 | — | — | 372 | #530 |
| 1995 | — | — | 306 | #586 |
| 1994 | — | — | 347 | #552 |
| 1993 | — | — | 359 | #542 |
| 1992 | — | — | 327 | #562 |
| 1991 | — | — | 340 | #552 |
| 1990 | — | — | 293 | #587 |
| 1989 | — | — | 335 | #522 |
| 1988 | — | — | 296 | #530 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,786 | 312 | #507 |
| 1986 | — | — | 290 | #523 |
| 1985 | — | — | 315 | #489 |
| 1984 | — | — | 338 | #456 |
| 1983 | — | — | 332 | #454 |
| 1982 | — | — | 349 | #457 |
| 1981 | — | — | 360 | #436 |
| 1980 | — | — | 350 | #445 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,109 | 366 | #417 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,839 | 313 | #452 |
| 1977 | — | — | 316 | #451 |
| 1976 | — | — | 319 | #435 |
| 1975 | — | — | 340 | #423 |
| 1974 | — | — | 295 | #467 |
| 1973 | — | — | 247 | #498 |
| 1972 | — | — | 198 | #569 |
| 1971 | — | — | 199 | #580 |
| 1970 | — | — | 184 | #598 |
| 1969 | — | — | 188 | #573 |
| 1968 | — | — | 169 | #585 |
| 1967 | — | — | 172 | #579 |
| 1966 | — | — | 165 | #586 |
| 1965 | — | — | 230 | #504 |
| 1964 | — | — | 175 | #600 |
| 1963 | — | — | 216 | #539 |
| 1962 | — | — | 239 | #512 |
| 1961 | — | — | 251 | #500 |
| 1960 | — | — | 301 | #459 |
| 1959 | — | — | 275 | #473 |
| 1958 | — | — | 292 | #459 |
| 1957 | — | — | 266 | #479 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,599 | 246 | #485 |
| 1955 | — | — | 267 | #456 |
| 1954 | — | — | 270 | #442 |
| 1953 | — | — | 273 | #429 |
| 1952 | — | — | 280 | #413 |
| 1951 | — | — | 315 | #383 |
| 1950 | — | — | 291 | #397 |
| 1949 | — | — | 292 | #393 |
| 1948 | — | — | 316 | #383 |
| 1947 | — | — | 283 | #408 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,811 | 249 | #404 |
| 1945 | — | — | 235 | #393 |
| 1944 | — | — | 271 | #367 |
| 1943 | — | — | 301 | #352 |
| 1942 | — | — | 275 | #365 |
| 1941 | — | — | 276 | #352 |
| 1940 | — | — | 275 | #343 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,741 | 250 | #351 |
| 1938 | — | — | 265 | #341 |
| 1937 | — | — | 278 | #326 |
| 1936 | — | — | 230 | #357 |
| 1935 | — | — | 257 | #344 |
| 1934 | — | — | 286 | #321 |
| 1933 | — | — | 280 | #320 |
| 1932 | — | — | 284 | #325 |
| 1931 | — | — | 298 | #316 |
| 1930 | — | — | 288 | #326 |
| 1929 | — | — | 316 | #310 |
| 1928 | — | — | 318 | #316 |
| 1927 | — | — | 321 | #321 |
| 1926 | — | — | 341 | #307 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,577 | 343 | #308 |
| 1924 | — | — | 358 | #302 |
| 1923 | — | — | 381 | #288 |
| 1922 | — | — | 387 | #285 |
| 1921 | — | — | 378 | #288 |
| 1920 | — | — | 383 | #286 |
| 1919 | — | — | 347 | #289 |
| 1918 | — | — | 352 | #290 |
| 1917 | — | — | 339 | #281 |
| 1916 | — | — | 333 | #281 |
| 1915 | — | — | 287 | #300 |
| 1914 | — | — | 258 | #272 |
| 1913 | — | — | 208 | #265 |
| 1912 | — | — | 207 | #245 |
| 1911 | — | — | 128 | #225 |
| 1910 | — | — | 132 | #197 |
| 1909 | — | — | 108 | #201 |
| 1908 | — | — | 82 | #231 |
| 1907 | — | — | 91 | #211 |
| 1906 | — | — | 73 | #228 |
| 1905 | — | — | 78 | #217 |
| 1904 | — | — | 87 | #199 |
| 1903 | — | — | 86 | #187 |
| 1902 | — | — | 73 | #209 |
| 1901 | — | — | 52 | #240 |
| 1900 | — | — | 117 | #181 |
| 1899 | — | — | 77 | #183 |
| 1898 | — | — | 69 | #210 |
| 1897 | — | — | 70 | #202 |
| 1896 | — | — | 81 | #199 |
| 1895 | — | — | 70 | #206 |
| 1894 | — | — | 83 | #183 |
| 1893 | — | — | 81 | #178 |
| 1892 | — | — | 86 | #183 |
| 1891 | — | — | 70 | #183 |
| 1890 | — | — | 64 | #206 |
| 1889 | — | — | 78 | #171 |
| 1888 | — | — | 80 | #186 |
| 1887 | — | — | 87 | #147 |
| 1886 | — | — | 84 | #167 |
| 1885 | — | — | 74 | #179 |
| 1884 | — | — | 77 | #181 |
| 1883 | — | — | 82 | #157 |
| 1882 | — | — | 93 | #147 |
| 1881 | — | — | 93 | #131 |
| 1880 | — | — | 111 | #119 |
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).