Moishe
- #3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
- Peak · boys
- 1975 · 25 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,201since 1950
Moishe over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Moishe has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,848 | 28 |
| 2024 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #3,474 | 33 |
| 2022 | #3,617 | 31 |
| 2021 | #3,740 | 29 |
| 2020 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 2014 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2013 | #4,180 | 23 |
| 2012 | #3,450 | 31 |
| 2011 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #4,429 | 22 |
| 2008 | #3,744 | 28 |
| 2007 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #3,306 | 32 |
| 2005 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #3,838 | 22 |
| 2002 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1999 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #3,708 | 19 |
| 1997 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #2,865 | 24 |
| 1992 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #4,017 | 13 |
| 1988 | #2,437 | 24 |
| 1987 | #2,838 | 18 |
| 1986 | #2,601 | 20 |
| 1985 | #2,942 | 16 |
| 1984 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | #1,991 | 26 |
| 1978 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #2,131 | 22 |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 12 |
| 1975 | #1,884 | 25 |
| 1974 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #2,686 | 13 |
| 1970 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #3,314 | 8 |
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| 1965 | #2,982 | 8 |
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| 1963 | #3,318 | 7 |
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| 1961 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | #2,315 | 13 |
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| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #3,024 | 8 |
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| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
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| 1952 | #3,095 | 7 |
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First appearance
1950
The first year at least five boys were named Moishe! It came in at #2,438, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1951, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Moishe is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Moishe in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Moishe
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 324 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #3,848)
- 427 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #3,848)
- 826 spots since 2015 (#3,022 → #3,848)
Rise & fade · boys
25 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1975 at #1,884 (25 births)
- Births halved by 1976, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 50,441
- Highest: 1 in 50,441 boys born in 2015 were named Moishe (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,003 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,884 in 1975, was only 1 in 62,454 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 21.6% of all boys named Moishe (259) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 39 | #2,438 (1950) | #3,008 |
| 1960s | 44 | #2,315 (1960) | #3,005 |
| 1970s | 154 | #1,884 (1975) | #2,728 |
| 1980s | 154 | #2,437 (1988) | #3,324 |
| 1990s | 151 | #2,865 (1993) | #4,303 |
| 2000s | 224 | #3,306 (2006) | #4,144 |
| 2010s | 259 | #3,022 (2015) | #4,062 |
| 2020s | 176 | #3,474 (2023) | #3,746 |
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.
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