Moisés
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Moisés 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. In Spanish, recorded as wicker crib.
- 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.
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)
Moses (the biblical patriarch)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
How Moisés is read(measured from records)
Moisés is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish69%
wicker crib
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Hebreo; probablemente de egipcio mesu 'niño, hijo'. Tradicionalmente se interpretó como 'sacado del agua'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese20%
Moses (the biblical patriarch)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moisés 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); the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Moisés is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Mylton, Nillton, Nilton, Nyllton, Salvado de las aguas
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Moses
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Moshe Alshichb. 1508TRnot in their usual nameOttoman rabbi and kabbalist
- Moissey Koganb. 1879FRnot in their usual nameRussian Jewish sculptor and printmaker (1879–1943)
- Moisés Naímb. 1952VEVenezuelan journalist
- Ollanta Humalab. 1962PEnot in their usual namePresident of Peru from 2011 to 2016
- Moisés Kaufmanb. 1963VEAmerican playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project
- Moisés Arizmendib. 1976MXMexican actor
- Moisés Lima Magalhãesb. 1988BRBrazilian footballer
- Moisés Ariasb. 1994USAmerican actor
- Moi Gómezb. 1994ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Moisés Caicedob. 2001ECEcuatorian association football player (born 2001)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 125K | #395 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 21 | #110 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 4 | #92 |
| ES Spain | Nombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Moisés come from?
- Moses (the biblical patriarch) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Moisés mean?
- In Spanish, wicker crib
- Is Moisés a male or female name?
- Moisés 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.
- What are other forms of the name Moisés?
- In the etymology graph, Musa, Moses and Moshe are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Moisés have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 144 thousand people named Moisés, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moises.
- How common is the name Moisés?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 143,542 people named Moisés in 2022, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Moisés compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Moisés is the 235th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mois%C3%A9sThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Moisés” — the 235th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.