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Moss

in Oregon

There are 771 people with the last name "Moss" in Oregon.

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Ranking in Oregon

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Moss 407
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  1. is 403rd most common Clarke
  2. is 404th most common Mccarthy
  3. is 405th most common Herrera
  4. is 406th most common Rodgers
  5. is 407th most common Moss
  6. is 408th most common Watts
  7. is 409th most common Burnett
  8. is 410th most common Huffman
  9. is 411th most common Maxwell

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, Robert, Randall, David, Charles, Donald, Gary, Patricia, Richard

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 Oregon

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James Moss, OR (9 searches)
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