girls:
21 births since 1982
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
16.6k births since 1942
#895 (80th percentile)
overall:
16.6k births since 1942
#2005 (74th percentile)
The name Moshe is the #2,005 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,638 recorded births since 1942. This represents the 74.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #895 (80.5% percentile) for all time with 16,617 births since 1942. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1982.
Moshe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1942 (1942 for boys and 1982 for girls).
The name Moshe has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Moshe reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 53.4% percentile (ranked #425) with 352 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 352 births per million (ranked 53.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Moshe is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #425 (53.4% percentile) with 352 births per million.
For girls, Moshe reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #848) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Moshe".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Moshe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.9% confident that Moshe is pronounced as MOH-shuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MOH-shay, at 19.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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