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Moss

in Iowa

There are 581 people with the last name "Moss" in Iowa.

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Ranking in Iowa

NameRank
Moss 426
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  1. is 422nd most common Swenson
  2. is 423rd most common Dennis
  3. is 424th most common Vander
  4. is 425th most common Chase
  5. is 426th most common Moss
  6. is 427th most common Ernst
  7. is 428th most common Neal
  8. is 429th most common Todd
  9. is 430th most common Gibbs

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, Michael, John, Steven, David, Dennis, Kevin, Barbara, Jason, Kenneth

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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