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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 350,601 of them was named Moshe, which outranked 14.9% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 7,068 of them was named Moshe, which outranked 94.0% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).