girls:
55 births since 1914
#5661 (1st percentile)
boys:
7.9k births since 1880
#1329 (71st percentile)
overall:
7.9k births since 1880
#3035 (61st percentile)
The name Mose is the #3,035 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,940 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 60.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,329 (71.0% percentile) for all time with 7,885 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,661 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1914.
Mose has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1914 for girls).
The name Mose has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mose reached its peak popularity in 1882, achieving the 34.1% percentile (ranked #136) with 631 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 631 births per million (ranked 34.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mose ranks #894 for boys (1.9% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mose reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #564) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1944.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mose".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Mose. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.8% confident that Mose is pronounced as mohz, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MOH-zihz, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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.
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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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