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Moss

in South Carolina

There are 2,044 people with the last name "Moss" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Moss 212
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  1. is 208th most common Hart
  2. is 209th most common Weaver
  3. is 210th most common Cobb
  4. is 211th most common Wise
  5. is 212th most common Moss
  6. is 213th most common Burton
  7. is 214th most common Haynes
  8. is 215th most common Douglas
  9. is 216th most common Brock

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, Charles, Robert, William, Mary, John, Michael, David, Jennifer, Linda

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 South Carolina

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James Moss, SC (9 searches)
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