Moe

Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682 · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to boys 92.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
1904 · 14 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
733
since 1888

Moe over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201888peak #11,246, 2010peak #612, 1904girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#7,67910
2024—#9,8947
2023—#6,51713
2022—#7,76810
2021——
2020—#9,5547
2019—#8,2159
2018#15,6825—
2017—#10,7756
2016——
2015—#12,0865
2014—#9,6427
2013#16,5475#9,6557
2012—#8,8648
2011#14,8246#12,2875
2010#11,2469—
2009——
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2006#17,1685#12,0555
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2004#16,0995—
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2001#15,3525—
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1999#14,4115—
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1997#12,0706—
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1995#11,7836—
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1993—#8,7005
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1991#13,1475—
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1978—#5,0596
1977—#5,1236
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1961—#3,6526
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1959—#3,6196
1958—#3,9445
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1953—#3,4256
1952—#3,3736
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1932—#3,0927
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1929—#3,5596
1928—#3,3577
1927—#2,19314
1926—#2,72510
1925—#2,43512
1924—#2,22914
1923—#2,61411
1922—#1,82719
1921—#2,05916
1920—#1,41627
1919—#1,15936
1918—#1,12437
1917—#1,23830
1916—#89249
1915—#99640
1914—#80243
1913—#83533
1912—#80030
1911—#75918
1910—#98111
1909—#80413
1908—#77912
1907—#9998
1906—#1,2535
1905—#1,0916
1904—#61214
1903—#1,0096
1902—#1,0136
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1899—#8577
1898——
1897—#1,0575
1896—#8268
1895—#8727
1894—#1,0745
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1890—#9945
1889—#9745
1888—#9176
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First appearance
1888

The first year at least five boys were named Moe! It came in at #917, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1889–1894, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Moe is popular in 1888

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Moe
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 2,215 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #7,679)
  • 1,875 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #7,679)
  • 4,407 spots since 2015 (#12,086 → #7,679)
  • Biggest jump: 397 spots in 1904 (#1,009 → #612)
  • Biggest drop: 479 spots in 1905 (#612 → #1,091)
Rise & fade · boys
16 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1888
  • Peaked 1904 at #612 (14 births)
  • Births halved by 1905, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1907–1916
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,152
  • Highest: 1 in 9,152 boys born in 1904 were named Moe (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 44.6% of all boys named Moe (327) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2019
  • Mostly girls until 2018, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s11#917 (1888)#946
1890s37#826 (1896)#947
1900s70#612 (1904)#945
1910s327#759 (1911)#959
1920s136#1,416 (1920)#2,441
1930s7#3,092 (1932)#3,092
1940s0——
1950s23#3,373 (1952)#3,590
1960s6#3,652 (1961)#3,652
1970s12#5,059 (1978)#5,091
1980s0——
1990s5#8,700 (1993)#8,700
2000s5#12,055 (2006)#12,055
2010s47#8,215 (2019)#10,218
2020s47#6,517 (2023)#8,282

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Moe in 1888

boys
#917
6 births · 1 in 20,142 boys

Top boys' names in 1888

  1. #1John9,247
  2. #2William8,705
  3. #3James5,562
  4. #4George4,912
  5. #5Charles4,591
  6. #6Frank3,459
  7. #7Joseph2,993
  8. #8Robert2,814
  9. #9Harry2,759
  10. #10Henry2,596
  11. #917Moe6
More about 1888

boys

120,852 boys got a published name in 1888; 1 in 20,142 of them was named Moe, which outranked 22.1% of the 1,177 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 39.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Moe
  1. #815Volney7
  2. #815Willian7
  3. #815Zollie7
  4. #917Moe6
  5. #917Abbott6
  6. #917Alan6
  7. #917Alden6
  8. #1,031Ad5
  9. #1,031Ada5
  10. #1,031Addie5

Tied with 113 names at #917; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1887
Risers
  1. ↑ 416Dell#921 → #505
  2. ↑ 416Reed#921 → #505
  3. ↑ 377Simeon#819 → #442
  4. ↑ 375Hardy#752 → #377
  5. ↑ 367Hazel#921 → #554
Fallers
  1. ↓ 487Connie#544 → #1,031
  2. ↓ 448Alice#583 → #1,031
  3. ↓ 448Shelton#583 → #1,031
  4. ↓ 401Bruno#516 → #917
  5. ↓ 401Young#516 → #917

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1888 →