Given name & surname
Mozes
Mozes is a given name from Latin. It is used in Dutch.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mozes 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 Moyses, 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 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Mozes 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
Mozes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 74
- 74 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 448 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.
Mozes’s family of names
Mozes has a related form in Moses. In Dutch usage, Mozes has a conventional equivalent in the French form Moïse.
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 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 25
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mozes
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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