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Moss

in Missouri

There are 1,929 people with the last name "Moss" in Missouri.

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Ranking in Missouri

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Moss 263
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  1. is 259th most common Chambers
  2. is 260th most common Bauer
  3. is 261st most common Newman
  4. is 262nd most common Patton
  5. is 263rd most common Moss
  6. is 264th most common Obrien
  7. is 265th most common Tate
  8. is 266th most common Garrison
  9. is 267th most common Stark

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, Robert, David, John, Mary, Michael, Charles, William, Donald, Kevin

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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