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Moss

in Illinois

There are 2,213 people with the last name "Moss" in Illinois.

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Ranking in Illinois

NameRank
Moss 405
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  1. is 401st most common Christensen
  2. is 402nd most common Higgins
  3. is 403rd most common Padilla
  4. is 404th most common Holland
  5. is 405th most common Moss
  6. is 406th most common Lindsey
  7. is 407th most common Krueger
  8. is 408th most common Nolan
  9. is 409th most common Lang

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

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

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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