Moes

surname · English · Latin script

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

Moes is a surname, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Dutch; 1. Limburg variant of Maas.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 201◐
  • MQMartinique1 in 244
  • GPGuadeloupe1 in 369

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈412K ●

across 10 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
369 ●

552K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 201 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

MauriceLatin · French●1.5M records
МошCyrillic · Russian●273 records
มอร์ริสThai · Thai●197 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maurice in FR France, US United States, BE Belgium and 8 more, Moritz in DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland and 2 more, Mos in PL Poland, ZA South Africa and Morris in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Moes: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Moes
  1. Middle Dutchmoes●
  2. Moerzekein●

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.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Moes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#62337,180264K rec.1 in 201337KMaurice342
DE Germany#29976,18777K rec.—1Moritz239
US United States—70,568137K rec.1 in 4.7K319KMaurice369
AT Austria#8041,8012.7K rec.—13KMoritz105
BE Belgium#15112,54413K rec.—989Maurice96
CA Canada#73612,20114K rec.—3Maurice133
GB United Kingdom—6,2736.9K rec.——Maurice117
CH Switzerland#1803,4141.6K rec.—471Moritz80
MQ Martinique#192,65352 rec.—5Maurice15
EG Egypt—2,6282.6K rec.——Maurice57
TH Thailand—2,2902.3K rec.—#482,816Morris64
GP Guadeloupe#451,67922 rec.—5Maurice7

Roughly 337K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 201). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English8K38%
  • Western Frisian3.4K16%
  • Dutch3K14%
  • German1.2K6%
  • French1K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English7,95938%
Western Frisian3,41316%
Dutch2,97414%
German1,2466%
French1,0085%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Moes is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname1.6K records spelled Moes11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Netherlands, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Mões, Móes, Moe’s, Moe'S, Moés

  • French surname1.1K records spelled Moes5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Moës, Moe'S, Moès, Moèš

  • Norwegian surname728 records spelled Moes8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Moe'S, Møs, Moës

  • Polish surname206 records spelled Moes2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Netherlands

    Also written Moës

  • a separate surname205 records spelled Moes6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands

    Also written Moës, Moés, Möes, Mões, Móes

  • Hindi surname95 records spelled Moes4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Moës, Móes

31 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●

Moes 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 Dutch, mush, pulp (of food)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In fro, oblique/nominative plural of moe

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, inessive singular of mood

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Afrikaans, preterite of moet; had to

    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.

Over time●

051015201900192019401960198020 · 1951

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Moes in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189110
190117
191111
19219
193113
194112
195120
19619
197120
198112
199112

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Wally Moes, b. 1856Jean-Nicolas Moes, b. 1857Ernst Wilhelm Moes, b. 1864Richard Moes, b. 1887Władysław Moes, b. 1900Gerlacus Moes, b. 1902Jerzy Moes, b. 1935Régis Moes, b. 1986Freeke Moes, b. 1998

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Moes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20073.4K#309
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010917#26,576
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020886#28,606
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000810#27,901
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—281#27,928
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200894#16,308
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—82#6,670
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202625—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—25#78,716
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—23#77,114
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—23#75,692
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—20#50,233

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 29 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Moes?
We estimate roughly 412 thousand people bear Moes (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Moes have the most bearers?
We estimate about 337 thousand people bear Moes in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled maurice.
Where is Moes most common?
Moes is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 201 people carrying it.
How common is Moes compared with other names?
In France, Moes is the 62nd most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
What does the name Moes mean?
Recorded meaning: Dutch; 1. Limburg variant of Maas.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Moes” — the 62nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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