Moskowitz

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Germanized form of a Slavic patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Moshke, a pet form of Moshe (see Moses)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈmɔskəwɪts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Moskowitz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common surname.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 63K
  • LBLebanon≈1 in 2.5Kas מוסקוביץ

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Moskowitz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈18,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
361 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MoskowitzLatin(measured from records)
מוסקוביץHebrew(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled מושקוביץ in IL Israel, HU Hungary, NO Norway and מוסקוביץ in LB Lebanon.

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)

Germanized form of a Slavic patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Moshke, a pet form of Moshe (see Moses).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Moskowitz 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 Moskowitz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#41≈18,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Moskowitz2
US United States—5,3041 in 63K5.3KMoskowitz361
IL Israel#1322,852as מושקוביץ1 in 3K2.9Kמושקוביץ39
LB Lebanon#96≈2,200 est.≈1 in 2.5K—מוסקוביץ2
HU Hungary—≈590 est.≈1 in 17K—מושקוביץ4
NO Norway—≈240 est.≈1 in 23K—מושקוביץ3

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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)

Moskowitz is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Московиц, Moskovitz, Moskovits, Moszkowicz, Mosḳovits

32 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Henry Moskowitz, b. 1878Joseph Moskowitz, b. 1879Abraham Moskowitz, b. 1880Sam Moskowitz, b. 1920Irving Moskowitz, b. 1928Robert Moskowitz, b. 1935Dorothy Moskowitz, b. 1940Uzi Moscovitch, b. 1964Ohad Moskowitz, b. 1974Jared Moskowitz, b. 1980

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)

FormalDear Moskowitz,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Moskowitz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020105.3K#6,412
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020205.1K#6,377
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020005.1K#6,213
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Moskowitz mean, and where does it come from?
Germanized form of a Slavic patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Moshke, a pet form of Moshe (see Moses). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Moskowitz?
A machine transcription gives /ˈmɔskəwɪts/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Moskowitz have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Moskowitz in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moskowitz.
How common is the name Moskowitz?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,304 people named Moskowitz in 2010, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
How common is Moskowitz compared with other names?
In Romania, Moskowitz is the 41st most common surname of 78,699 surnames 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, “Moskowitz” — the 41st most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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