Moses

38,468 people in the United States were counted with the surname Moses in the 2020 census, making it the 888th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,770.

By the numbers

People: 38,468
Rank: 888th
How common: 1 in 7,770
Per 100,000: 12.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Moses described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 52.5%
Black, not Hispanic 33.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.7%

Notable people called Moses

Victor Moses (born 1990)Nigerian association football player
Edwin Moses (born 1955)American track and field athlete
Grandma Moses (1860–1961)American painter
Tallis Obed Moses (born 1954)pastor, former President of Vanuatu
Robert Moses (1888–1981)American urban planner
Mark Moses (born 1958)American actor
William R. Moses (born 1959)American actor
Senta Moses (born 1973)actress

People named Moses with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Moses

Also a first name

Moses has been given to 43,342 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.