Given name & surname
Moise
Moise is a surname. It is used in English and Romanian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Moise is a variant of Moses. A possible origin is Egyptian, although the derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Latin Moses, from Ancient Greek Μωησής, from Hebrew משה.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1902. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Moise is a variant of Moses. The history of Moses gives this family its wider story. Moses appears in biblical tradition, giving it a longstanding religious and cultural context.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Moise through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 935
- 935 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 15
- #6,053 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +33%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 15 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,053 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 33.3% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,647 as a first name in 2020; 4,794 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Moise’s family of names
Moise shares a linguistic root with Moses. In Romanian usage, Moise has a conventional equivalent in the French form Moïse. Moise has a related form in Moses.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 26
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Moise
- Moise of WallachiaPrince of Walalchia
- Moise MovilăVoivode of Moldavia (1596–1661)
- Moise DragoșRomanian Greek Catholic hierarch1726–1787
- Moise PoidaVanuatuan footballerborn 1978
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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