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Moss

in Kentucky

There are 1,099 people with the last name "Moss" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

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Moss 484
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  1. is 480th most common Collett
  2. is 481st most common Conn
  3. is 482nd most common Peterson
  4. is 483rd most common Goff
  5. is 484th most common Moss
  6. is 485th most common Martinez
  7. is 486th most common Fleming
  8. is 487th most common Burden
  9. is 488th most common Case

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, William, David, Mary, John, Michael, Robert, Thomas, Edward

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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James Moss, KY (9 searches)
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