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Moss

in Alabama

There are 1,895 people with the last name "Moss" in Alabama.

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Ranking in Alabama

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Moss 280
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  1. is 276th most common Hollis
  2. is 277th most common Sparks
  3. is 278th most common Calhoun
  4. is 279th most common Wheeler
  5. is 280th most common Moss
  6. is 281st most common Newton
  7. is 282nd most common Kirkland
  8. is 283rd most common Mccoy
  9. is 284th most common Mims

Similar Names and Nicknames

Massey, Massie, Mazza, Massa, Mosser, Mossman, Moise, Masse, Moose, Mass

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, William, John, David, Mary, Robert, Charles, Michael, Patricia, Thomas

Meaning & History

English and Welsh: from the personal name Moss, a Middle English vernacular form of the Biblical name Moses.

English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a peat bog, Middle English, Old English mos, or a habitational name from a place named with this word. (It was not until later that the vocabulary word came to denote the class of plants characteristic of a peat-bog habitat, under the influence of the related Old Norse word mosi.)

Americanized form of Moses or some other like-sounding Jewish surname.

Irish (Ulster): part translation of Gaelic Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmhóna’, a personal name composed of the elements maol ‘servant’, ‘tonsured one’, ‘devotee’ + a second element which was assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland’, ‘peat bog’.

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