Moselle

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Moselle is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 714K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.4M

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 Moselle itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

606 named Muzel

Sources
127 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 714K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Moezel in AU Australia, NL Netherlands.

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(measured from records)

Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Moselle 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.

Where Moselle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil606as Muzel1 in 349K606——
US United States1821 in 1.8M204Moselle127
FR France≈95 est.≈1 in 714K30Moselle89
NL Netherlands28as Moezel1 in 617K28Moezel14
GB United Kingdom≈27 est.≈1 in 2.4M—Moselle13
AU Australia≈19 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Moezel21
DK Denmark4as Muzel1 in 1.5M4——

606 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Moselle is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil

    Also written Mosela

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mosela

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Moselle is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Ellipse pour « vin de Moselle ». Nom générique des vins allemands récoltés dans la vallée de la Moselle et deux de ses affluents.

    as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

  • Salida del agua

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In English, A left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Moselle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020167#41,955
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192116—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191916—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191515—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191412—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192311—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192211—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191811—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191611—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)190911—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192410—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19209—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Moselle mean, and where does it come from?
Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate… Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Moselle have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 606 people named Muzel, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Moselle?
In the United States, the national register counted 182 people named Moselle in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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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, “Moselle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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