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Moss

in West Virginia

There are 531 people with the last name "Moss" in West Virginia.

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Ranking in West Virginia

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Moss 494
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  1. is 490th most common Maxwell
  2. is 491st most common Samples
  3. is 492nd most common Hammond
  4. is 493rd most common Haines
  5. is 494th most common Moss
  6. is 495th most common Nestor
  7. is 496th most common Dempsey
  8. is 497th most common Bland
  9. is 498th most common Mace

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

John, David, William, Robert, Charles, James, Jeffrey, Mary, Michael

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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