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Moss

in Minnesota

There are 471 people with the last name "Moss" in Minnesota.

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Ranking in Minnesota

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Moss 939
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  1. is 935th most common Buchanan
  2. is 936th most common Dickinson
  3. is 937th most common Caldwell
  4. is 938th most common Kuehl
  5. is 939th most common Moss
  6. is 940th most common Mcgrath
  7. is 941st most common Barth
  8. is 942nd most common Reeves
  9. is 943rd most common Allison

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

David, Robert, Brian, Kevin, Patricia, Dennis, Michael, Steve, William, Denise

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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