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Moss

in Tennessee

There are 2,748 people with the last name "Moss" in Tennessee.

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Ranking in Tennessee

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Moss 233
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  1. is 229th most common Dean
  2. is 230th most common Wheeler
  3. is 231st most common Tipton
  4. is 232nd most common Bowers
  5. is 233rd most common Moss
  6. is 234th most common Sutton
  7. is 235th most common Terry
  8. is 236th most common Davenport
  9. is 237th most common Chandler

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, David, William, John, Charles, Mary, Linda, Robert, Donald, George

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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