Moosa

Peak · boys
2017 · 23 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
285
since 1998

Moosa over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Moosa has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #4,331, 2017boys
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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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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#8,9108
2024#10,9386
2023#8,9218
2022#7,76810
2021#4,62821
2020#7,03411
2019#7,64310
2018#5,54016
2017#4,33123
2016#6,72612
2015#5,99914
2014#5,99714
2013#5,65915
2012#5,03518
2011#8,0799
2010#8,8038
2009#9,8647
2008#11,0376
2007#8,9158
2006#10,6626
2005#11,4725
2004#6,52011
2003#8,6437
2002#8,4567
2001#9,2436
2000#7,4168
1999#9,9125
1998#8,4796
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First appearance
1998

The first year at least five boys were named Moosa! It came in at #8,479, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1998–1999, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.

Where Moosa is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Moosa in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Moosa
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 2,028 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #8,910)
  • 1,876 spots since 2020 (#7,034 → #8,910)
  • 2,911 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1998
  • Peaked 2017 at #4,331 (23 births)
  • Births halved by 2019, 2 yrs 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 80,476
  • Highest: 1 in 80,476 boys born in 2017 were named Moosa (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 48.8% of all boys named Moosa (139) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s11#8,479 (1998)#9,196
2000s71#6,520 (2004)#9,223
2010s139#4,331 (2017)#6,381
2020s64#4,628 (2021)#8,033

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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