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Moss

in Texas

There are 4,638 people with the last name "Moss" in Texas.

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Ranking in Texas

NameRank
Moss 445
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  1. is 441st most common Lucas
  2. is 442nd most common Page
  3. is 443rd most common Burnett
  4. is 444th most common Suarez
  5. is 445th most common Moss
  6. is 446th most common Villegas
  7. is 447th most common Ingram
  8. is 448th most common Schneider
  9. is 449th most common Blair

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, Robert, Michael, John, David, William, Charles, Mary, Gary, Joe

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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