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Moss

in Virginia

There are 1,903 people with the last name "Moss" in Virginia.

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Moss 357
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  1. is 353rd most common Welch
  2. is 354th most common Ramos
  3. is 355th most common Cross
  4. is 356th most common Combs
  5. is 357th most common Moss
  6. is 358th most common Edmonds
  7. is 359th most common Bowles
  8. is 360th most common Underwood
  9. is 361st most common Moran

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

James, John, Robert, Michael, Charles, William, David, Richard, Joseph, Mary

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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