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Moss

in Rhode Island

There are 103 people with the last name "Moss" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

NameRank
Moss 1,317
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  1. is 1,313th most common Hood
  2. is 1,314th most common Laplume
  3. is 1,315th most common Mackenzie
  4. is 1,316th most common Mcgill
  5. is 1,317th most common Moss
  6. is 1,318th most common Navarro
  7. is 1,319th most common Pope
  8. is 1,320th most common Rivas
  9. is 1,321st most common Robidoux

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, Barbara, Eric, Thomas, Charles, David, Louise, Steven, Amber, Andrew

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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