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Moss

in Michigan

There are 2,205 people with the last name "Moss" in Michigan.

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Ranking in Michigan

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Moss 332
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  1. is 328th most common Rodgers
  2. is 329th most common Fischer
  3. is 330th most common Paul
  4. is 331st most common Hartman
  5. is 332nd most common Moss
  6. is 333rd most common Oconnor
  7. is 334th most common Hale
  8. is 335th most common Mccarthy
  9. is 336th most common Walton

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

David, Michael, Robert, Richard, James, Mary, John, Thomas, William, Gary

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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