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Moss

in Arkansas

There are 1,111 people with the last name "Moss" in Arkansas.

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Ranking in Arkansas

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Moss 276
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  1. is 272nd most common Bradford
  2. is 273rd most common Ingram
  3. is 274th most common Beck
  4. is 275th most common Little
  5. is 276th most common Moss
  6. is 277th most common Norris
  7. is 278th most common Jennings
  8. is 279th most common Patton
  9. is 280th most common Bridges

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, Michael, John, William, Jeff, David, Jimmy, Thomas, Angela, Betty

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’.

Recent Searches for "Moss" in Arkansas

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James Moss, AR (9 searches)
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