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Moss

in the US

There are 61,866 people with the last name "Moss" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Moss 365
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  1. is 361st most common Cross
  2. is 362nd most common Dennis
  3. is 363rd most common Gross
  4. is 364th most common Simon
  5. is 365th most common Moss
  6. is 366th most common Delgado
  7. is 367th most common Quinn
  8. is 368th most common Moran
  9. is 369th most common Fischer

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Moss

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

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’.

Recent Searches for "Moss" in the US

Since June 2009
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James Moss (594 searches)
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