Mose

Where Mose comes from

Mose hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1855
    Mose Janashvili born
    Georgian historian
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #225 among boys — 52 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1882
    Peak, #176
    77 babies named Mose — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1927
    Mose Allison born
    American jazz blues pianist and singer
  5. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,368.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Mose Allison · American jazz blues pianist and singer, 1927–2016
  • Mose Janashvili · Georgian historian, 1855–1934
  • Mose Toidze · painter, 1871–1953
  • Mose Timoteo · rugby player, born 1976
  • Mose Khoneli · Georgian writer

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.