Moës
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Moës is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 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.
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 35K
- DKDenmark1 in 72K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
3,413 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Moes in NL Netherlands, US United States, BE Belgium and 1 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)- 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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Moës is found
(measured from records)Moës 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,413 | 1 in 5.1K | 3.4K | Moes | 19 |
| US United States | — | 917 | 1 in 363K | 917 | Moes | 20 |
| BE Belgium | — | 338 | 1 in 35K | 338 | Moes | 20 |
| BR Brazil | — | 281 | 1 in 753K | 281 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 82 | 1 in 72K | 82 | — | — |
| LU Luxembourg | #339 | — | — | — | Moes | 10 |
3,413 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moës mean, and where does it 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Moës?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Moës, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moes. After it come United States, Belgium, Brazil and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Moës most common?
- Moës is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Moës?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,413 people named Moës in 2007, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Moës compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Moës is the 339th most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mo%C3%ABsThe 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, “Moës” — the 339th most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.