Moíses
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Moíses is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Angola it is the 78th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Portuguese Moises and Spanish Moisés.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 571(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 689
- PAPanama≈1 in 744
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #987 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 402 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 571 (inferred from the name graph)
143,542 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Moises in US United States, PE Peru, BR Brazil and 6 more and Moisés in PA Panama.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Portuguese Moises and Spanish Moisés.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moíses counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #235 | 143,542 | 1 in 1.5K | 144K | Moises | 182 |
| PE Peru | #101 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 689 | — | Moises | 100 |
| US United States | #998 | 41,184 | 1 in 8.1K | 41K | Moises | 402 |
| PH Philippines | #584 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Moises | 72 |
| ES Spain | #245 | 22,785 | 1 in 2.2K | 23K | Moises | 173 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 14,373 | 1 in 1.2K | 14K | Moises | 60 |
| BO Bolivia | #371 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 917 | — | Moises | 49 |
| SV El Salvador | #120 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 571 | — | Moises | 62 |
| AO Angola | #78 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Moises | 27 |
| PA Panama | #332 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 744 | 21 | Moisés | 72 |
143,542 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 125K | #396 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 2 | #1,501 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moíses mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Portuguese Moises and Spanish Moisés. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Moíses a male or female name?
- Moíses is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Moíses have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 144 thousand people named Moíses, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moises.
- How common is the name Moíses?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 143,542 people named Moíses in 2022, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Moíses compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Moíses is the 235th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Moíses” — the 235th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.