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Moss

in Massachusetts

There are 601 people with the last name "Moss" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

NameRank
Moss 1,243
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  1. is 1,239th most common Holbrook
  2. is 1,240th most common Marcus
  3. is 1,241st most common Singer
  4. is 1,242nd most common Longo
  5. is 1,243rd most common Moss
  6. is 1,244th most common Neal
  7. is 1,245th most common Heffernan
  8. is 1,246th most common Mueller
  9. is 1,247th most common Atkins

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

Robert, David, Thomas, John, Stephen, Barbara, Daniel, James, Scott

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 Massachusetts

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Robert Moss, MA (9 searches)
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