How Many People Are Named Moises?

29,520

people named Moises are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 11,578 people in the US has this name

Based on 31,397 babies named Moises in Social Security records from 1893 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,285

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#543

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Peak Year

2001

912 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronunciation: moi-SES (Spanish)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Spanish and Portuguese form of MOSES.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.2%
Male
99.8%

Almost all of the babies given the name Moises (99.8%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Moises alive today is about 24 years old, and 69% are under 30. Half of them were between 12 and 33 in 2025.

Under 30 20,433
69.2%
30 to 59 8,168
27.7%
60 and over 919
3.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Moises first appears in the records in 1893 and was given most often in 2001, to 912 babies. In 2025, 502 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1893 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Moises has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #308, in 2001. In 2025 it ranked #587.

Boys
Rank in 2025#587
Best rank#308 (2001)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#349 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Moises alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Moises were born in California than in any other state: about 10,738 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Moises was given 2.9 times as often in California, 2.2 times in Texas and 2 times in Nevada.

California 10,738
Texas 5,302
New York 1,873
Florida 1,472
Illinois 1,296
Arizona 747
New Jersey 673
Washington 529
North Carolina 498
Georgia 465
Nevada 354
Colorado 341
Massachusetts 323
Virginia 286
Oregon 263
Pennsylvania 248
Indiana 209
New Mexico 203
Maryland 193
Utah 156
Tennessee 133
Oklahoma 121
Michigan 99
Connecticut 90
Minnesota 83
Alabama 79
Nebraska 78
Wisconsin 76
Kansas 68
South Carolina 66
Arkansas 52
Ohio 46
Iowa 41
Louisiana 38
Idaho 36
Kentucky 18
Rhode Island 15
Missouri 15
District of Columbia 12

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