Moses

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Moses: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Moses: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #312 in 2000, and it stood at #535 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#312highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#573
1997	#538
1998	#511
1999	#603
2000	#503
2001	#602
2002	#710
2003	#653
2004	#637
2005	#615
2006	#481
2007	#532
2008	#550
2009	#524
2010	#536
2011	#602
2012	#606
2013	#538
2014	#513
2015	#629
2016	#558
2017	#563
2018	#511
2019	#607
2020	#640
2021	#650
2022	#679
2023	#843
2024	#678

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #535 among boys in Scotland, #678 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #573 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2000–2015
Highest recorded position: #312 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2000 (recorded 2000–2015).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #678 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Moses appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,492 births with the name.

Moses across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Moses's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#573 (1996)	#481 (2006)	#678 (2024)	29 of 29	1,492 (1996–2024)	76 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#312 (2000)	#312 (2000)	#699 (2015)	7 of 16	30 (2000–2015)	6 (2013)

Moses by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Moses in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	129	4 of 10	32
2000s	460	10 of 10	46
2010sbusiest	651	10 of 10	65
2020s	252	5 of 10	50

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 65 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Moses appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #312 in Republic of Ireland in 2000.

Moses's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#678	54	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#843	38	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#679	50	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#650	56	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#640	54	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#607	61	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#511	76	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#563	69	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#558	67	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#629	56	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#513	75	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#538	68	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#606	58	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#602	57	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#536	64	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#524	66	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#550	60	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#532	59	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#481	64	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#615	43	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#637	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#653	33	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#710	27	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#602	31	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#503	39	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#603	29	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#511	38	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#538	33	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#573	29	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#479	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#439	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#393	4	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #312, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 76 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Morwenna · #801, 28y
Moshe · #696, 29y
Mosiah · #2546, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lucian · #312, 30y
Mea · #312, 25y
Raja · #312, 29y
Jada · #311, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aled · #312, 29y
Ellena · #312, 29y
Emmanuella · #312, 29y
Lucian · #312, 30y

Moses was ranked #312 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Moses and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Moses without appearing here.

Moses moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2002 they stood at #710 and #633 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #653 and #1132.
Murray Compare
In 2003 they stood at #653 and #642 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #637 and #1038.
Garry Compare
In 1996 they stood at #573 and #573 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #538 and #914.
Scott Compare
In 2023 they stood at #843 and #691 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #678 and #1025.

Moved ahead of Moses

Lachlan Compare
In 2014 they stood at #513 and #558 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #629 and #363.
Cillian Compare
In 2014 they stood at #513 and #550 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #629 and #404.
Oisin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #640 and #766 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #650 and #433.
Arlo Compare
In 2008 they stood at #550 and #567 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #524 and #311.

Moved the opposite way to Moses

Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Moses went from #481 to #678 while Aksel went from #4052 to #1132.

Moved the same way as Moses

Garry Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Moses went from #573 to #843 and Garry from #573 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Moses went from #573 to #843 and Graeme from #755 to #4107.
Nicola Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Moses went from #573 to #843 and Nicola from #2863 to #4107.
Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Moses went from #538 to #843 and Kelly from #1454 to #3523.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #312 in Republic of Ireland in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Moses

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Moses across 2 official records

Moses by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Moses across 2 official records

Moses by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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