# Mose (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mose/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,990 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,935 / 55 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 5 | 4,026 |
| 1918 | 6 | 4,656 |
| 1921 | 5 | 5,656 |
| 1923 | 8 | 3,867 |
| 1932 | 6 | 4,270 |
| 1934 | 8 | 3,375 |
| 1937 | 6 | 4,126 |
| 1942 | 5 | 5,150 |
| 1944 | 6 | 4,401 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | 5,125 |
| 2012 | 20 | 4,808 |
| 2013 | 21 | 4,566 |
| 2014 | 23 | 4,348 |
| 2015 | 13 | 6,578 |
| 2016 | 14 | 6,240 |
| 2017 | 16 | 5,705 |
| 2018 | 19 | 5,045 |
| 2019 | 24 | 4,301 |
| 2020 | 16 | 5,617 |
| 2021 | 15 | 5,946 |
| 2022 | 18 | 5,359 |
| 2023 | 22 | 4,692 |
| 2024 | 13 | 6,703 |
| 2025 | 25 | 4,213 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |

## People named Mose

- Mose Allison, American jazz blues pianist and singer (1927–2016)
- Mose Janashvili, Georgian historian (1855–1934)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.