girls:
62 births since 1991
#5654 (1st percentile)
boys:
717 births since 1888
#3870 (16th percentile)
overall:
779 births since 1888
#6960 (10th percentile)
The name Moe is the #6,960 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 779 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 10.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,870 (15.6% percentile) for all time with 717 births since 1888. For girls, it ranks #5,654 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 62 births since 1991.
Moe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for boys and 1991 for girls). Birth data for Moe is available in 64 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (56 years for boys and 11 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Moe has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Moe reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 8.8% percentile (ranked #458) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 101 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Moe ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 7.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Moe reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #940) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Moe".
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