Mòś

surname · Latin script

Mòś is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • EGEgypt≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
  • INIndia≈1 in 380Kfew records
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 730Kfew records

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 Mòś 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.

United States (measured from records)

71,289 named Maurice, 2020

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
386 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)

Egypt, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
MauriceLatin(measured from records)
МошCyrillic(measured from records)
มอร์ริสThai(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maurice in FR France, BE Belgium, EG Egypt and 2 more and Moritz in US United States, DE Germany.

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)
recorded in Korean

[군사], 주특기, military occupational speciality

Cited for this meaning 2

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mòś 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 Mòś is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—71,289as Maurice1 in 4.7K319KMoritz386
CD Congo - Kinshasa#229≈63,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Maurice18
FR France#181≈61,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K337KMaurice355
DE Germany—≈33,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Moritz258
CM Cameroon#136≈26,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Maurice32
BE Belgium#147≈7,300 est.≈1 in 1.6K989Maurice105
EG Egypt—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 51K—Maurice62
GY Guyana—410as Maurice1 in 1.8K773—1

71,289 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling maurice. 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 prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mòś under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Mòś have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 71 thousand people named Maurice, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Mòś?
In the United States, the national register counted 71,289 people named Maurice in 2020, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
How common is Mòś compared with other names?
In Cameroon, Mòś is the 136th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.

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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, “Mòś” — the 136th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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