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Moss

in Georgia

There are 4,223 people with the last name "Moss" in Georgia.

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Ranking in Georgia

NameRank
Moss 191
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  1. is 187th most common Robertson
  2. is 188th most common Wheeler
  3. is 189th most common Hart
  4. is 190th most common Sullivan
  5. is 191st most common Moss
  6. is 192nd most common Berry
  7. is 193rd most common Maddox
  8. is 194th most common Bishop
  9. is 195th most common Gilbert

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, Charles, David, John, Robert, William, Dorothy, Mary, Michael, Richard

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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