Moşe

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Moşe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1 . Italian (pronounced as two syllables): from the Biblical name Mose, Italian equivalent of Moses. This surname is widespread in northern Italy, and is especially common Trieste and Venetia. 2.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 66K(measured from records)
  • LVLatvia1 in 134K
  • USUnited States1 in 155K

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.

United States (measured from records)

2,151 people, 2020

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

1 . Italian (pronounced as two syllables): from the Biblical name Mose, Italian equivalent of Moses. This surname is widespread in northern Italy, and is especially common Trieste and Venetia. 2. Catalan (Mose): from Mosse, Catalan and Occitan (southern France) form of the Biblical name Moses. 3. Danish: topographic name from mose ‘swamp’, ‘bog’.

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Moşe 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.

Where Moşe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,1511 in 155K2.1K—3
SE Sweden1541 in 66K154—1
TR Türkiye≈130 est.≈1 in 657K—Moşe13
BR Brazil241 in 8.8M130——
NL Netherlands221 in 785K11—2
LV Latvia141 in 134K14——
FI Finland131 in 429K46——

2,151 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Moşe is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Albanian

    Also written Mose, Moese, Möse, მოსე, Mose'

  • Spanish surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mose, Mosè, Mosé, Mōšé, Mōše

  • Hindi surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, South Africa, Kenya

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Mose, Mosè, Möse, Moše

  • Hebrew given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, India, Iran, Yemen

    Also written מוסה, Moussa, Moosa, Mose, Mosse

  • Bangla surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Mose, Mosè

  • Indonesian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mose, Mosé, Mosè

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Moşe mean, and where does it come from?
1 . Italian (pronounced as two syllables): from the Biblical name Mose, Italian equivalent of Moses. This surname is widespread in northern Italy, and is especially common Trieste and Venetia. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 2 other sources.
Is Moşe a male or female name?
Moşe 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 Moşe have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Moşe, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Moşe most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Moşe is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 66 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Moşe?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,151 people named Moşe in 2020, about 1 in 155 thousand residents.

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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, “Moşe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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