Mose
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1 . Italian (pronounced as two syllables): from the Biblical name Mose, Italian equivalent of Moses
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mose/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mose is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 163K
- KEKenya≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
1 . Italian (pronounced as two syllables): from the Biblical name Mose, Italian equivalent of Moses. This surname is widespread in northern Italy, and is especially common Trieste and Venetia. 2. Catalan (Mose): from Mosse, Catalan and Occitan (southern France) form of the Biblical name Moses. 3. Danish: topographic name from mose ‘swamp’, ‘bog’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mose 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 3 | Mose | 21 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Mose | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Mose | 20 |
| US United States | 2,044 | 1 in 163K | 2.1K | Mose | 202 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Mose | 14 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Mose | 17 |
| DK Denmark | 739 | 1 in 7.9K | 739 | — | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners. 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)
Mose 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 Danish, bog (expanse of marshland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, variante regional de Mosè
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Mosé
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In car, the animate singular proximal demonstrative pronoun; this
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, a small bird, a tit, titmouse, coalmouse
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)
- Joseph Eduard Moseb. 1825DEGerman architect
- Wilhelmine Moseb. 1856CZholocaust victim, b. 1856-07-11
- Paula Moseb. 1857ATHolocaust victim (born 1857)
- Jassy Torrundb. 1860DEnot in their usual nameGerman writer (1860–1943)
- Carl C. Moseb. 1903USDanish-American sculptor
- Ingo Moseb. 1957DEGerman university teacher
- Charonne MoseCACanadian choreographer
- Shadrack John MoseKEKenyan politician
- Louise MoseDanish association football player
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 59 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,571 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,001 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 739 | #550 |
| KE Kenya | Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners | 2022 | 3 | #61 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mose come from?
- 1 . Italian (pronounced as two syllables): from the Biblical name Mose, Italian equivalent of Moses. This surname is widespread in northern Italy, and is especially common Trieste and Venetia. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mose?
- A machine transcription gives /mose/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- What does the name Mose mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1 . Italian (pronounced as two syllables): from the Biblical name Mose, Italian equivalent of Moses.
- What are other forms of the name Mose?
- In the etymology graph, Moss, Moussa and Moos are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mose have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Mose in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mose.
- How common is the name Mose?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,044 people named Mose in 2010, about 1 in 163 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mose?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moseThe 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, “Mose”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.