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Moss

in New York

There are 2,211 people with the last name "Moss" in New York.

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Ranking in New York

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Moss 614
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  1. is 610th most common Maxwell
  2. is 611th most common Howe
  3. is 612th most common Olson
  4. is 613th most common Feliciano
  5. is 614th most common Moss
  6. is 615th most common Arroyo
  7. is 616th most common Barker
  8. is 617th most common Dillon
  9. is 618th most common Kaur

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

Michael, Robert, James, John, William, David, Richard, Steven, Mary, Barbara

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 York

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