Moê
surname · Latin script
Moê is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. In Antigua & Barbuda it is the 88th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Japanese 萌え (moe, “budding, sprouting”), imperfective or continuative form of 萌える (moeru, “to burst into bud, to sprout”).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 23K
- USUnited States1 in 30K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 362 (measured from records)
- 1 in 412 (inferred from the name graph)
13,266 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Moe in US United States, NO Norway, CA Canada and 4 more.
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)
From Japanese 萌え (moe, “budding, sprouting”), imperfective or continuative form of 萌える (moeru, “to burst into bud, to sprout”).
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moê 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #643 | 13,266 | 1 in 412 | 13K | Moe | 64 |
| US United States | — | 11,150 | 1 in 30K | 12K | Moe | 362 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Moe | 28 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Moe | 133 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Moe | 48 |
| SG Singapore | #754 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Moe | 36 |
| DK Denmark | — | 311 | 1 in 19K | 311 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 87 | 1 in 8.6K | 87 | — | 3 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #88 | — | — | — | Moe | 3 |
13,266 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moê mean, and where does it come from?
- From Japanese 萌え (moe, “budding, sprouting”), imperfective or continuative form of 萌える (moeru, “to burst into bud, to sprout”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Moê have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Moê, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moe.
- Where is Moê most common?
- Moê is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 412 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Moê?
- In Norway, the national register counted 13,266 people named Moê, about 1 in 412 residents.
- How common is Moê compared with other names?
- In Norway, Moê is the 643rd most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mo%C3%AAThe 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, “Moê” — the 643rd most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.