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Moss

in New Mexico

There are 254 people with the last name "Moss" in New Mexico.

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Ranking in New Mexico

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Moss 642
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  1. is 638th most common Thornton
  2. is 639th most common Vazquez
  3. is 640th most common Hays
  4. is 641st most common Lerma
  5. is 642nd most common Moss
  6. is 643rd most common Barrera
  7. is 644th most common Saunders
  8. is 645th most common Quinones
  9. is 646th most common Ayala

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, Jerry, John, David, Charles, Larry, Lee, Robert, Scott, Terry

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 New Mexico

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James Moss, NM (5 searches)
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