Moseley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Moseley or Mosley, from English place-names meaning variously ‘glade frequented by mice’, ‘glade by a marsh’ or ‘Moll’s glade’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mowzʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moseley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 72nd most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 19K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 6K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 443 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈61,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Moseleyor(measured from records)
- Englishplace-names(measured from records)
person from Moseley or Mosley, from English place-names meaning variously ‘glade frequented by mice’, ‘glade by a marsh’ or ‘Moll’s glade’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moseley 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Moseley | 3 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Moseley | 1 |
| US United States | — | 17,130 | 1 in 19K | 17K | Moseley | 443 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Moseley | 212 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Moseley | 8 |
| LR Liberia | #72 | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Moseley | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Moseley | 25 |
| GY Guyana | — | 106 | 1 in 7.1K | 106 | — | 5 |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Moseley 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 English, from Moseley (Staffordshire, Worcestershire), Moseley in West Dean (Gloucestershire), or Mowsley (Leicestershire); first attested Suen de Moseleia 1195 P (Worcestershire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
variants Mosley. The form Moseley occurs mainly in the West Midlands.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Mark, US football player
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, river, France, Germany
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Moselle [Mosel]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Edward Moseleyb. 1682USAmerican politician c. 1682-1749
- William Dunn Moseleyb. 1795USAmerican politician (1795-1863)
- Henry Nottidge Moseleyb. 1844GBBritish naturalist and botanist (1844–1891)
- Henry Moseleyb. 1887GBEnglish physicist
- Mark Moseleyb. 1948USAmerican football player
- Bill Moseleyb. 1951USAmerican actor (born 1951)
- Mark Moseleyb. 1964USAmerican actor
- Jonny Moseleyb. 1975USAmerican freestyle skier
- Dustin Moseleyb. 1981USAmerican baseball player
- William Moseleyb. 1987GBEnglish actor (born 1987)
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,115 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 106 | #519 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Moseley mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Moseley or Mosley, from English place-names meaning variously ‘glade frequented by mice’, ‘glade by a marsh’ or ‘Moll’s glade’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Moseley?
- A machine transcription gives /mowzʎi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Moseley have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 61 thousand people named Moseley in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moseley.
- How common is the name Moseley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,130 people named Moseley in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Moseley compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Moseley is the 72nd most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moseleyThe 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, “Moseley” — the 72nd most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.