Moe
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682 · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to boys 92.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1904 · 14 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 733since 1888
Moe over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #7,679 | 10 | |
| 2024 | — | #9,894 | 7 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,517 | 13 | |
| 2022 | — | #7,768 | 10 | |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | #9,554 | 7 | |
| 2019 | — | #8,215 | 9 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | — | |
| 2017 | — | #10,775 | 6 | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | — | #12,086 | 5 | |
| 2014 | — | #9,642 | 7 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | — | #8,864 | 8 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | — | |
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | — | — | ||
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | — | |
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | — | |
| 2000 | — | — | ||
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,092 | 7 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,357 | 7 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,193 | 14 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,725 | 10 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,435 | 12 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,229 | 14 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,614 | 11 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,827 | 19 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,059 | 16 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,416 | 27 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,159 | 36 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,124 | 37 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,238 | 30 | |
| 1916 | — | #892 | 49 | |
| 1915 | — | #996 | 40 | |
| 1914 | — | #802 | 43 | |
| 1913 | — | #835 | 33 | |
| 1912 | — | #800 | 30 | |
| 1911 | — | #759 | 18 | |
| 1910 | — | #981 | 11 | |
| 1909 | — | #804 | 13 | |
| 1908 | — | #779 | 12 | |
| 1907 | — | #999 | 8 | |
| 1906 | — | #1,253 | 5 | |
| 1905 | — | #1,091 | 6 | |
| 1904 | — | #612 | 14 | |
| 1903 | — | #1,009 | 6 | |
| 1902 | — | #1,013 | 6 | |
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | #857 | 7 | |
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | #1,057 | 5 | |
| 1896 | — | #826 | 8 | |
| 1895 | — | #872 | 7 | |
| 1894 | — | #1,074 | 5 | |
| 1893 | — | — | ||
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| 1890 | — | #994 | 5 | |
| 1889 | — | #974 | 5 | |
| 1888 | — | #917 | 6 | |
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| 1883 | — | — | ||
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| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Moe! It came in at #917, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1894, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Moe
- 2,215 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #7,679)
- 1,875 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #7,679)
- 4,407 spots since 2015 (#12,086 → #7,679)
- Biggest jump: 397 spots in 1904 (#1,009 → #612)
- Biggest drop: 479 spots in 1905 (#612 → #1,091)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1904 at #612 (14 births)
- Births halved by 1905, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1907–1916
- Highest: 1 in 9,152 boys born in 1904 were named Moe (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.6% of all boys named Moe (327) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2018, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | #917 (1888) | #946 |
| 1890s | 37 | #826 (1896) | #947 |
| 1900s | 70 | #612 (1904) | #945 |
| 1910s | 327 | #759 (1911) | #959 |
| 1920s | 136 | #1,416 (1920) | #2,441 |
| 1930s | 7 | #3,092 (1932) | #3,092 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 23 | #3,373 (1952) | #3,590 |
| 1960s | 6 | #3,652 (1961) | #3,652 |
| 1970s | 12 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,091 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #8,700 (1993) | #8,700 |
| 2000s | 5 | #12,055 (2006) | #12,055 |
| 2010s | 47 | #8,215 (2019) | #10,218 |
| 2020s | 47 | #6,517 (2023) | #8,282 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Moe in 1899
Top boys' names in 1899
More about 1899
boys
106,211 boys got a published name in 1899; 1 in 15,173 of them was named Moe, which outranked 28.6% of the 1,200 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).