Moises
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Spanish (Moises), Jewish (Sephardic), and Portuguese; from the personal name Moises, Spanish equivalent of Moses
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/moisɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moises is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Angola it is the 78th most common given name.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 571(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 689
- PAPanama≈1 in 744
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #987 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 402 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 571 (inferred from the name graph)
143,542 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Moisés in PA Panama.
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)
Spanish (Moises), Jewish (Sephardic), and Portuguese; from the personal name Moises, Spanish equivalent of Moses. Moissis is also found as a family name in Greece.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moises 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #235 | 143,542 | 1 in 1.5K | 144K | Moises | 182 |
| PE Peru | #101 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 689 | — | Moises | 100 |
| US United States | #998 | 41,184 | 1 in 8.1K | 41K | Moises | 402 |
| PH Philippines | #584 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Moises | 72 |
| ES Spain | #245 | 22,785 | 1 in 2.2K | 23K | Moises | 173 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 14,373 | 1 in 1.2K | 14K | Moises | 60 |
| BO Bolivia | #371 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 917 | — | Moises | 49 |
| SV El Salvador | #120 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 571 | — | Moises | 62 |
| AO Angola | #78 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Moises | 27 |
| PA Panama | #332 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 744 | 21 | Moisés | 72 |
143,542 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Moises is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, Moses (Biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, alternative form of Mōsēs
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)
- Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomezb. 1907NLPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
- Moises Liebanab. 1930ESSpanish musician
- Moises Altalefb. 1960GTbadminton player
- Mo Denisb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician
- Moises Cuevasb. 1973PHRoman Catholic bishop
- Moises Ivan Morab. 1974MXMexican voice actor
- Moises Samanb. 1974PESpanish-American conflict photographer
- Moises dos Santos Cesarb. 1983BRBrazilian volleyball player
- Moises Hernandezb. 1992USGuatemalan footballer
- Moises Velasquez-ManoffUSAmerican freelance science-writer and columnist living in Berkeley, California
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 144K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 143K | #236 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 125K | #394 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 41K | #1,025 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 23K | #138 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 23K | #318 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 14K | #155 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 770 | #236 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 502 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 170 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 107 | #1,025 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Moises come from?
- Spanish (Moises), Jewish (Sephardic), and Portuguese; from the personal name Moises, Spanish equivalent of Moses. Moissis is also found as a family name in Greece. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How common is the name Moises?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 143,542 people named Moises in 2022, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Moises compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Moises is the 235th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Moises?
- A machine transcription gives /moisɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Moises mean?
- Recorded meaning: Spanish (Moises), Jewish (Sephardic), and Portuguese; from the personal name Moises, Spanish equivalent of Moses.
- Is Moises a male or female name?
- Moises is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Moises have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 144 thousand people named Moises, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moises.
What do you want to know about Moises?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moisesThe 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, “Moises” — the 235th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.