Moshe
Last seen for girls in 1996 at #13,518 · #435 for boys in 2025, 728 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 728 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 18,017since 1942
Moshe over time
Rank among boys' names. Moshe has never cracked the top 400 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #435 | 728 | |
| 2024 | — | #482 | 642 | |
| 2023 | — | #459 | 667 | |
| 2022 | — | #491 | 619 | |
| 2021 | — | #477 | 626 | |
| 2020 | — | #517 | 554 | |
| 2019 | — | #513 | 555 | |
| 2018 | — | #517 | 549 | |
| 2017 | — | #527 | 536 | |
| 2016 | — | #546 | 529 | |
| 2015 | — | #535 | 533 | |
| 2014 | — | #533 | 523 | |
| 2013 | — | #519 | 511 | |
| 2012 | — | #526 | 499 | |
| 2011 | — | #540 | 472 | |
| 2010 | — | #557 | 455 | |
| 2009 | — | #600 | 431 | |
| 2008 | — | #634 | 388 | |
| 2007 | — | #582 | 440 | |
| 2006 | — | #584 | 419 | |
| 2005 | — | #645 | 338 | |
| 2004 | — | #607 | 353 | |
| 2003 | — | #598 | 359 | |
| 2002 | — | #631 | 311 | |
| 2001 | — | #663 | 276 | |
| 2000 | — | #653 | 277 | |
| 1999 | — | #659 | 262 | |
| 1998 | — | #654 | 267 | |
| 1997 | — | #636 | 265 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #633 | 268 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #746 | 207 |
| 1994 | — | #710 | 216 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #751 | 194 |
| 1992 | — | #802 | 169 | |
| 1991 | — | #731 | 193 | |
| 1990 | — | #700 | 212 | |
| 1989 | — | #734 | 181 | |
| 1988 | — | #680 | 191 | |
| 1987 | — | #605 | 226 | |
| 1986 | — | #646 | 191 | |
| 1985 | — | #820 | 118 | |
| 1984 | — | #775 | 124 | |
| 1983 | — | #747 | 134 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #845 | 110 |
| 1981 | — | #775 | 126 | |
| 1980 | — | #871 | 104 | |
| 1979 | — | #805 | 117 | |
| 1978 | — | #786 | 116 | |
| 1977 | — | #834 | 104 | |
| 1976 | — | #803 | 107 | |
| 1975 | — | #886 | 87 | |
| 1974 | — | #882 | 84 | |
| 1973 | — | #948 | 72 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,050 | 59 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,091 | 56 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,142 | 52 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,017 | 57 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,047 | 50 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,253 | 36 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,450 | 28 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,513 | 26 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,615 | 24 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,548 | 26 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,259 | 38 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,179 | 45 | |
| 1960 | — | #981 | 60 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,050 | 54 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,026 | 55 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,100 | 48 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,120 | 46 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,572 | 24 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,706 | 20 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,408 | 29 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,547 | 24 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,683 | 20 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,538 | 23 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,754 | 18 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,218 | 12 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,988 | 15 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,862 | 7 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,523 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Moshe! It came in at #2,523, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1946, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Moshe is popular in 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#165 · 1 in 1,023
- New Jersey#233 · 1 in 1,821
- Florida#979 · 1 in 14,636
- California#1,579 · 1 in 34,431
Best ever in a state: #22 in New York, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #165 | 126 | 1 in 1,023 |
| New Jersey | #233 | 28 | 1 in 1,821 |
| Florida | #979 | 6 | 1 in 14,636 |
| California | #1,579 | 8 | 1 in 34,431 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Moshe
- 47 spots since 2024 (#482 → #435)
- 82 spots since 2020 (#517 → #435)
- 100 spots since 2015 (#535 → #435)
- Biggest jump: 174 spots in 1986 (#820 → #646)
- Biggest drop: 198 spots in 1961 (#981 → #1,179)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 2025 at #435 (728 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 54 yrs · run 1973–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,346 boys born in 2025 were named Moshe (0.04%)
- 28.7% of all boys named Moshe (5,162) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 82 | #1,754 (1949) | #2,499 |
| 1950s | 343 | #1,026 (1958) | #1,375 |
| 1960s | 390 | #981 (1960) | #1,286 |
| 1970s | 854 | #786 (1978) | #923 |
| 1980s | 1,505 | #605 (1987) | #750 |
| 1990s | 2,253 | #633 (1996) | #702 |
| 2000s | 3,592 | #582 (2007) | #620 |
| 2010s | 5,162 | #513 (2019) | #531 |
| 2020s | 3,836 | #435 (2025) | #477 |
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.
Moshe in 1993
Top girls' names in 1993
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
girls
1,809,072 girls got a published name in 1993; 1 in 361,814 of them was named Moshe, which outranked 14.9% of the 15,801 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,359 names at #13,442; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 10,110 of them was named Moshe, which outranked 92.6% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.