Moyse
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the biblical name Moses; first attested Gaufridus filius Moyses 1210 Cur (Nf)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɔɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moyse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 37M(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 92K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 494K
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
- 166 (measured from records)
- 1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)
367 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the biblical name Moses; first attested Gaufridus filius Moyses 1210 Cur (Nf)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moyse 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 | 367 | 1 in 906K | 395 | Moyse | 43 |
| BE Belgium | 128 | 1 in 92K | 128 | Moyse | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | Moyse | 1 |
| FR France | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 37M | 89 | Moyse | 166 |
367 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Moyse 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.
from a medieval variant of the personal name Moses (Middle English Moise, Old French Moise).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Moses
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
variant of Moses.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latin, ablative singular of Mō̆ȳsēs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of musen
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Édouard Moyseb. 1827FRFrench painter, illustrator and engraver (1827-1908)
- Marcel Moyseb. 1889FRFrench flute player (1889–1984)
- Blanche Honegger Moyseb. 1909CHAmerican conductor (1909-2011)
- Arthur Moyseb. 1914GBanarchist, artist and writer (1914–2003)
- Alec Moyseb. 1935GBEnglish footballer (1935-1994)
- Claire Moyse-Faurieb. 1949FRFrench linguist
- Laurent Moyseb. 1964LULuxembourg journalist
- Joachim Moyseb. 1969FRFrench politician
- Heather Moyseb. 1978CACanadian multi-sport athlete
- Walter Moyseb. 1981CACanadian basketball player (born 1981)
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 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 395 | #55,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 367 | #55,841 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 357 | #54,152 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 134 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 128 | #12,652 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 122 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 108 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 102 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 89 | — |
Reference works 8
- 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 given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Moyse mean, and where does it come from?
- from the biblical name Moses; first attested Gaufridus filius Moyses 1210 Cur (Nf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Moyse?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɔɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Moyse have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 367 people named Moyse, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moyse.
- Where is Moyse most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Moyse is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 92 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Moyse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 367 people named Moyse in 2010, about 1 in 906 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moyseThe 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, “Moyse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.