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Moss

in North Carolina

There are 3,351 people with the last name "Moss" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Moss 268
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  1. is 264th most common Haynes
  2. is 265th most common Moody
  3. is 266th most common Bowen
  4. is 267th most common Johnston
  5. is 268th most common Moss
  6. is 269th most common Wooten
  7. is 270th most common Washington
  8. is 271st most common Barker
  9. is 272nd most common Oliver

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

William, Robert, James, Michael, John, David, Charles, Mary, Jerry, Elizabeth

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 North Carolina

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William Moss, NC (9 searches)
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