Moes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Dutch; 1. Limburg variant of Maas
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmoʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1Kas Maurice(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.2Kas Maurice
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.8Kas Maurice
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 Moes 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 named Maurice, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est., as Maurice
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Maurice in FR France, BE Belgium, CM Cameroon 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)
- Middle Dutchmoes(measured from records)
- Moerzekein(measured from records)
Dutch; 1. Limburg variant of Maas. 2. (de Moes); nickname, or metonymic occupational name for a cook, from Middle Dutch moes ‘food’, ‘porridge’, ‘stewed vegetables’. 3. (van Moes); possibly a habitational name from Moerzeke in East Handers, or a topographic name for someone who lived by the Maas river.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moes 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Maurice | 22 |
| US United States | — | 71,289as Maurice | 1 in 4.7K | 319K | Moritz | 386 |
| FR France | #181 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 337K | Maurice | 355 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Moritz | 258 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #229 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Maurice | 18 |
| CM Cameroon | #136 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Maurice | 32 |
| BE Belgium | #147 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 989 | Maurice | 105 |
| GY Guyana | — | 410as Maurice | 1 in 1.8K | 773 | — | 1 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Moes is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, mush, pulp (of food)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, second-person singular present indicative of moer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, oblique/nominative plural of moe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, inessive singular of mood
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, preterite of moet; had to
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)
- Wally Moesb. 1856NLDutch painter (1856-1918)
- Jean-Nicolas Moesb. 1857LU(1857-1907)
- Ernst Wilhelm Moesb. 1864NLDutch art historian (1864-1912)
- Richard Moesb. 1887DEGerman politician (1887-1968)
- Władysław Moesb. 1900PLPolish noble, inspiration for the character Tadzio in Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice
- Gerlacus Moesb. 1902NLDutch swimmer (1902-1965)
- Jerzy Moesb. 1935PLPolish actor (1935–2019)
- Régis Moesb. 1986LULuxembourgish politician
- Freeke Moesb. 1998NLDutch field hockey player
- Joanna Moes-SosnowskaPLPolish molecular biologist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 917 | #26,576 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 886 | #28,606 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 810 | #27,901 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 94 | #16,308 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 11 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Where does the name Moes come from?
- Dutch; 1. Limburg variant of Maas. 2. (de Moes); nickname, or metonymic occupational name for a cook, from Middle Dutch moes ‘food’, ‘porridge’, ‘stewed vegetables’. 3. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Moes?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmoʊz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Moes mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dutch; 1. Limburg variant of Maas.
- What are other forms of the name Moes?
- In the etymology graph, Mousse is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Moes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 306 thousand people named Maurice in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Moes?
- 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 Moes compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Moes is the 136th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Moes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moesThe 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, “Moes” — the 136th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.