as a Last Name
- 48,483
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Mosley
Meaning & Origins
English (chiefly southern Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from any of several places called Mos(e)ley in central, western, and northwestern England. The obvious derivation is from Old English mos ‘peat bog’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, but the one in southern Birmingham (Museleie in Domesday Book) had as its first element Old English mūs ‘mouse’, while one in Staffordshire (Molesleie in Domesday Book) had the genitive case of the Old English byname Moll.
| 702nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 48,483
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Mosley per capita
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