Mossie

Where Mossie comes from

Diminutive of Maurice + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mossie
  • Vowel-ended
Mossie through the years
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #1,024 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #693
    11 babies named Mossie, its best rank.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Maurice.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Mossie in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.