Μος
surname · Greek script
Μος is a surname written in the Greek script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 97K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 4.3Kas Moss
- NONorway1 in 6Kas Moss
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Μος itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)
76,908 named Moss, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Moss in US United States, GR Greece.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Μος counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 76,908as Moss | 1 in 4.3K | 77K | Moss | 44 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,361as Mos | 1 in 13K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 904as Moss | 1 in 6K | 904 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 579as Moss | 1 in 366K | 579 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 234as Moss | 1 in 214K | 234 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 132as Moss | 1 in 44K | 132 | — | — |
| GR Greece | #137 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Moss | 25 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 8as Moss | 1 in 13K | 8 | — | — |
76,908 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Μος have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 77 thousand people named Moss, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Μος?
- In the United States, the national register counted 76,908 people named Moss in 2010, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Μος compared with other names?
- In Greece, Μος is the 137th most common surname of 112,415 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Μος?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Μος” — the 137th most common surname in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.