Moses
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #515 for boys in 2025, 583 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 111 births
- Debut · boys
- 111 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 43,291since 1880
Moses over time
Rank among boys' names. Moses has never cracked the top 100 here.
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 | #13,208 | 6 | #515 | 583 |
| 2024 | — | #500 | 612 | |
| 2023 | — | #546 | 537 | |
| 2022 | — | #514 | 580 | |
| 2021 | — | #512 | 572 | |
| 2020 | — | #493 | 595 | |
| 2019 | — | #509 | 562 | |
| 2018 | — | #492 | 586 | |
| 2017 | — | #473 | 630 | |
| 2016 | — | #460 | 669 | |
| 2015 | — | #468 | 643 | |
| 2014 | — | #482 | 587 | |
| 2013 | — | #463 | 606 | |
| 2012 | — | #539 | 486 | |
| 2011 | — | #513 | 505 | |
| 2010 | — | #502 | 515 | |
| 2009 | — | #499 | 544 | |
| 2008 | — | #490 | 562 | |
| 2007 | — | #456 | 606 | |
| 2006 | — | #440 | 618 | |
| 2005 | — | #511 | 481 | |
| 2004 | — | #495 | 493 | |
| 2003 | — | #490 | 504 | |
| 2002 | — | #463 | 517 | |
| 2001 | — | #445 | 545 | |
| 2000 | — | #457 | 520 | |
| 1999 | — | #480 | 463 | |
| 1998 | — | #503 | 426 | |
| 1997 | — | #510 | 402 | |
| 1996 | — | #530 | 372 | |
| 1995 | — | #584 | 306 | |
| 1994 | — | #551 | 347 | |
| 1993 | — | #542 | 359 | |
| 1992 | — | #562 | 327 | |
| 1991 | — | #551 | 340 | |
| 1990 | — | #587 | 293 | |
| 1989 | — | #522 | 335 | |
| 1988 | — | #530 | 296 | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #507 | 312 |
| 1986 | — | #523 | 290 | |
| 1985 | — | #488 | 315 | |
| 1984 | — | #456 | 338 | |
| 1983 | — | #454 | 332 | |
| 1982 | — | #457 | 349 | |
| 1981 | — | #436 | 360 | |
| 1980 | — | #443 | 350 | |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #416 | 366 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #452 | 313 |
| 1977 | — | #451 | 316 | |
| 1976 | — | #434 | 319 | |
| 1975 | — | #423 | 340 | |
| 1974 | — | #467 | 295 | |
| 1973 | — | #498 | 247 | |
| 1972 | — | #569 | 198 | |
| 1971 | — | #579 | 199 | |
| 1970 | — | #596 | 184 | |
| 1969 | — | #573 | 188 | |
| 1968 | — | #581 | 169 | |
| 1967 | — | #577 | 172 | |
| 1966 | — | #586 | 165 | |
| 1965 | — | #502 | 230 | |
| 1964 | — | #599 | 175 | |
| 1963 | — | #539 | 216 | |
| 1962 | — | #512 | 239 | |
| 1961 | — | #500 | 251 | |
| 1960 | — | #459 | 301 | |
| 1959 | — | #473 | 275 | |
| 1958 | — | #459 | 292 | |
| 1957 | — | #478 | 266 | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | #484 | 246 |
| 1955 | — | #455 | 267 | |
| 1954 | — | #442 | 270 | |
| 1953 | — | #426 | 273 | |
| 1952 | — | #413 | 280 | |
| 1951 | — | #383 | 315 | |
| 1950 | — | #396 | 291 | |
| 1949 | — | #392 | 292 | |
| 1948 | — | #383 | 316 | |
| 1947 | — | #407 | 283 | |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | #404 | 249 |
| 1945 | — | #390 | 235 | |
| 1944 | — | #366 | 271 | |
| 1943 | — | #352 | 301 | |
| 1942 | — | #364 | 275 | |
| 1941 | — | #352 | 276 | |
| 1940 | — | #343 | 275 | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | #351 | 250 |
| 1938 | — | #340 | 265 | |
| 1937 | — | #324 | 278 | |
| 1936 | — | #356 | 230 | |
| 1935 | — | #344 | 257 | |
| 1934 | — | #321 | 286 | |
| 1933 | — | #320 | 280 | |
| 1932 | — | #325 | 284 | |
| 1931 | — | #316 | 298 | |
| 1930 | — | #325 | 288 | |
| 1929 | — | #310 | 316 | |
| 1928 | — | #316 | 318 | |
| 1927 | — | #321 | 321 | |
| 1926 | — | #307 | 341 | |
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 | #307 | 343 |
| 1924 | — | #302 | 358 | |
| 1923 | — | #287 | 381 | |
| 1922 | — | #284 | 387 | |
| 1921 | — | #288 | 378 | |
| 1920 | — | #286 | 383 | |
| 1919 | — | #289 | 347 | |
| 1918 | — | #289 | 352 | |
| 1917 | — | #281 | 339 | |
| 1916 | — | #280 | 333 | |
| 1915 | — | #299 | 287 | |
| 1914 | — | #271 | 258 | |
| 1913 | — | #265 | 208 | |
| 1912 | — | #244 | 207 | |
| 1911 | — | #223 | 128 | |
| 1910 | — | #197 | 132 | |
| 1909 | — | #201 | 108 | |
| 1908 | — | #230 | 82 | |
| 1907 | — | #210 | 91 | |
| 1906 | — | #228 | 73 | |
| 1905 | — | #216 | 78 | |
| 1904 | — | #198 | 87 | |
| 1903 | — | #187 | 86 | |
| 1902 | — | #209 | 73 | |
| 1901 | — | #237 | 52 | |
| 1900 | — | #180 | 117 | |
| 1899 | — | #183 | 77 | |
| 1898 | — | #209 | 69 | |
| 1897 | — | #201 | 70 | |
| 1896 | — | #199 | 81 | |
| 1895 | — | #206 | 70 | |
| 1894 | — | #182 | 83 | |
| 1893 | — | #176 | 81 | |
| 1892 | — | #181 | 86 | |
| 1891 | — | #183 | 70 | |
| 1890 | — | #204 | 64 | |
| 1889 | — | #171 | 78 | |
| 1888 | — | #186 | 80 | |
| 1887 | — | #147 | 87 | |
| 1886 | — | #166 | 84 | |
| 1885 | — | #176 | 74 | |
| 1884 | — | #181 | 77 | |
| 1883 | — | #156 | 82 | |
| 1882 | — | #147 | 93 | |
| 1881 | — | #131 | 93 | |
| 1880 | — | #119 | 111 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Moses was already there! It came in at #119, and was given to 111 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1901–1902, when fewer than 74 boys a year got the name.
See more about Moses
- 15 spots since 2024 (#500 → #515)
- 22 spots since 2020 (#493 → #515)
- 47 spots since 2015 (#468 → #515)
- Biggest jump: 97 spots in 1965 (#599 → #502)
- Biggest drop: 84 spots in 1966 (#502 → #586)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #119 (111 births)
- Births halved by 1901, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 146 yrs · run 1880–2025
- Highest: 1 in 995 boys born in 1880 were named Moses (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,930 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 13.4% of all boys named Moses (5,789) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 859 | #119 (1880) | #158 |
| 1890s | 751 | #176 (1893) | #192 |
| 1900s | 847 | #180 (1900) | #210 |
| 1910s | 2,591 | #197 (1910) | #264 |
| 1920s | 3,526 | #284 (1922) | #301 |
| 1930s | 2,716 | #316 (1931) | #332 |
| 1940s | 2,773 | #343 (1940) | #375 |
| 1950s | 2,775 | #383 (1951) | #441 |
| 1960s | 2,106 | #459 (1960) | #543 |
| 1970s | 2,777 | #416 (1979) | #489 |
| 1980s | 3,277 | #436 (1981) | #482 |
| 1990s | 3,635 | #480 (1999) | #540 |
| 2000s | 5,390 | #440 (2006) | #475 |
| 2010s | 5,789 | #460 (2016) | #490 |
| 2020s | 3,479 | #493 (2020) | #513 |
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.
Moses in 1956
Top girls' names in 1956
Top boys' names in 1956
More about 1956
girls
2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 401,541 of them was named Moses, which outranked 13.6% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 939 names at #5,952; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,115,302 boys got a published name in 1956; 1 in 8,599 of them was named Moses, which outranked 89.1% of the 4,455 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.