Moyes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the medieval personal name Moise, a vernacular variant of Moses
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɔɪz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moyes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 65K
- USUnited States1 in 248K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
1,339 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the medieval personal name Moise, a vernacular variant of Moses.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moyes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,339 | 1 in 248K | 1.3K | Moyes | 251 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Moyes | 136 |
| AU Australia | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Moyes | 90 |
| CA Canada | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Moyes | 84 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Moyes | 40 |
1,339 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)
Moyes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the Middle English personal name Moise (see Moses).
as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)
- Margaret Moyes Blackb. 1853GBScottish writer
- Helen Fraserb. 1881GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician (1881-1979)
- Lois Moyes Bickleb. 1881CACanadian tennis player
- Patricia Moyesb. 1923GBBritish mystery writer (1923–2000)
- John Moyesb. 1946GBEnglish cricketer (born 1946)
- Dave Moyesb. 1955GBScottish footballer (1955-2024)
- David Moyesb. 1963GBScottish association football manager (born 1963)
- Jojo Moyesb. 1969GBBritish novelist and journalist
- James Moyesb. 1974GBEnglish cricketer (born 1974)
- Kris Moyesb. 1978AUAustralian filmmaker
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #19,997 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,007 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Moyes mean, and where does it come from?
- From the medieval personal name Moise, a vernacular variant of Moses. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Moyes?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɔɪz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Moyes have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Moyes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moyes.
- How common is the name Moyes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,339 people named Moyes in 2010, about 1 in 248 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moyesThe 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, “Moyes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.