How Many People Are Named Moishe?
people named Moishe are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 298,502 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,201 babies named Moishe in Social Security records from 1950 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
38 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Yiddish form of MOSES.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Moishe in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Moishe alive today is about 25 years old, and 62% are under 30. Half of them were between 10 and 39 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Moishe first appears in the records in 1950 and was given most often in 2015, to 38 babies. In 2025, 28 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1950 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Moishe has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,924, in 1975. In 2025 it ranked #3,914.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #3,914 |
| Best rank | #1,924 (1975) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #3,982 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Moishe alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Moishe were born in New York than in any other state: about 832 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Moishe was given about 14.6 times as often in New York.
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