Moysey
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɔɪzi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moysey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Devon. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Moise, Moisy, a vernacular form of the Biblical name Moses . Compare Moyes and Moyses .
- AUAustralia≈1 in 419K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 591K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 645K
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 419K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Devon. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Moise, Moisy, a vernacular form of the Biblical name Moses . Compare Moyes and Moyses .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moysey 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | 100 | Moysey | 87 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 645K | — | Moysey | 61 |
| CA Canada | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 591K | — | Moysey | 48 |
| AU Australia | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 419K | — | Moysey | 35 |
| IT Italy | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Moysey | 7 |
| PL Poland | 9 | 1 in 4.3M | 5 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Moysey | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Moysey | 1 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Abel Moyseyb. 1743GBpolitician; (1743-1831)
- George Moyseyb. 1874AUAustralian rules footballer and cricketer (1874-1932)
- Robert Moyseyb. 1949USAmerican historian
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 100 | #53,270 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #53,270 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Moysey mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Devon. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Moise, Moisy, a vernacular form of the Biblical name Moses . Compare Moyes and Moyses . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Moysey?
- A machine transcription gives /mɔɪzi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Moysey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 people named Moysey in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moysey.
- How common is the name Moysey?
- In Poland, the national register counted 9 people named Moysey in 2026, about 1 in 4.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moyseyThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Moysey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.