Moas

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Initialism of mine and obstacle avoidance sonar

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/moas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Moas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 8.3K(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 253K
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 337K

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.

Uruguay (measured from records)

408 people

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Initialism of mine and obstacle avoidance sonar.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Moas 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.

Where Moas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UY Uruguay4081 in 8.3K408Moas16
US United States≈130 est.≈1 in 2.5MlistedMoas40
AR Argentina551 in 827K55Moas26
BR Brazil471 in 4.5M47Moas15
ES Spain411 in 1.2M41Moas10
IL Israel≈34 est.≈1 in 253K—Moas5
PT Portugal≈31 est.≈1 in 337K—Moas6

408 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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: INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Moas is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Israel, Germany

    Languages: English, Norwegian, German

    Also written Mōâś

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Moás

  • Hebrew surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Lebanon, Syria

    Also written מואס, Mawase, מועאיה

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Moas 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.

  • Sao Paulo

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Galician, second-person singular present subjunctive of moer

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Moas,Dear Moas, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Moas,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Moas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—408—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—55—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—47#109,451
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—41#50,938
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—41#50,851
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

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

What does the name Moas mean, and where does it come from?
Initialism of mine and obstacle avoidance sonar. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Moas?
A machine transcription gives /moas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Moas have the most bearers?
In Uruguay, the national register counted about 408 people named Moas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moas.
Where is Moas most common?
Moas is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Moas?
In Uruguay, the national register counted 408 people named Moas, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.

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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, “Moas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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