Moses was derived from the Hebrew Mosheh. Its meaning is unclear, it can stand for “to draw out”, “son”, or “to deliver”. The explanations are taken from the origin of Moses in the Bible.
Moses is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Moses isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Moses ranks 469. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Moses. In the entire USA, approximately 34,248 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Moses. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Moses was derived from the Hebrew Mosheh. Its meaning is unclear, it can stand for “to draw out”, “son”, or “to deliver”. The explanations are taken from the origin of Moses in the Bible.
The biblical Moses ... was pulled from the Nile by the pharaoh's daughter and adopted into the royal family, at a time when the Israelites were slaves in Egypt.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Moses annualy. This means that there have been boys named Moses who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Moses have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Moses even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record at rank #113 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Moses was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Moses has never been ranked higher than #113. In 2022, he rivaled the 496 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 568 boys named Moses were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Moses were born, there have been 326 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With five letters, the name Moses is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Moses and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Moses, you can simply say:
Mouse
Orange
Sun
Elephant
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Moses
Moses
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Moses sounds like this:
