Moishe

boys:

1.1k births since 1950

#3462 (24th percentile)

overall:

1.1k births since 1950

#6598 (15th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Moishe is the #6,598 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,141 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 14.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,462 (24.5% percentile) for all time with 1,141 births since 1950.

Moishe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (first recorded for boys in 1950). Birth data for Moishe is available in 64 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023. 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.

For boys, Moishe reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #872) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Moishe is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #883 (3.1% percentile) with 18 births per million.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Moishe".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
1,141
Peak Births
38
Peak Year
2015
First Recorded
1950
Peak Percentile
3.6%
Current Percentile
3.1%
Peak Rank
#872
Current Rank
#883
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Moishe

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Moishe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 37.0% confident that Moishe is pronounced as MOY-shuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is moysh, at 26.1% confidence, with 1 syllables.

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37.0%
1
26.1%
2
13.0%
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13.0%
2
10.9%
MOY-shuh (2 syllables)
37.0% confidence
M OY1 SH AH0
moysh (1 syllable)
26.1% confidence
M OY1 SH
MOY-shih (2 syllables)
Verified
13.0% confidence
M OY1 SH IH0
MOH-sheh (2 syllables)
Verified
13.0% confidence
M OW1 SH EH0
MOY-shee (2 syllables)
10.9% confidence
M OY1 SH IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M OY1 SH AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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