Mosley

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mosley is a surname, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A habitational surname.

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 12◐
  • CZCzechia1 in 43
  • FIFinland1 in 52

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

≈6.3M ●

across 12 countries

#9 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
656 ●

65M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 43 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

MichaelLatin · English●45M records
МихаилCyrillic · Russian●13M records
מיכאלHebrew · Hebrew●444K records
ᲛიხეილGeorgian · Georgian●55K records
ไมเคิลThai · Thai●3.1K records
ΜιχαήλGreek · Greek●155 records
মাইকেলBengali · Bangla●143 records
미카엘Hangul · Korean●27 records
ՄիխայիլArmenian · Armenian●6 records
ମାଇକେଲOdia · Odia●0 records

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Michael in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 15 more, Михаил in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye, Mikael in FI Finland, SE Sweden and Михайло in UA Ukraine.

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●

A habitational surname.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Mosley is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#2113,284,4114.2M rec.—#8Михаил244
UA Ukraine#234,587,4624.6M rec.—listedМихайло117
US United States#33,469,43443M rec.1 in 963.5MMichael656
GB United Kingdom#42,842,1172.4M rec.—626Michael373
DE Germany#31,639,8761.5M rec.—6Michael363
AU Australia#21,532,8441.1M rec.—121Michael379
CU Cuba#61,016,44718K rec.——Michael36
CA Canada#2934,497863K rec.—58Michael323
FR France#17820,6151.1M rec.1 in 83821KMickael416
PH Philippines#6816,562582K rec.—listedMichael220
BR Brazil#363715,241△123K rec.1 in 296715KMichael208
PL Poland#9492,326△208K rec.1 in 78492KMichał254

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

Languages●

  • English453K84%
  • 24K4%
  • Spanish16K3%
  • Hindi9.3K2%
  • French3.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English452,63684%
23,6674%
Spanish16,2463%
Hindi9,3372%
French3,8541%

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◐

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

  • Spanish surname25K records spelled Mosley8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Colombia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Moslëy, Môsley

  • English surname2.3K records spelled Mosley21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Israel

    Languages: English, Arabic, French

    Also written Mosely, מוסלי, Moseley

  • Russian surname395 records spelled Mosley6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Türkiye, Canada

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Moseley, Мосли

44 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.

Over time●

051015201940196019802000202018 · 2016

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Mosley in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1928–2025
Yearrecords
19286
20126
20146
20157
201618
201713
20188
20196
20205
20236
20248
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 12 years between 1928–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Oswald Mosley, b. 1896Leonard Mosley, b. 1913Roger E. Mosley, b. 1938Max Mosley, b. 1940Walter Mosley, b. 1952Michael Mosley, b. 1957Chuck Mosley, b. 1959Shane Mosley, b. 1971DJ Timmy Tim, b. 1972Michael Mosley, b. 1978

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 27 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Mosley
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201048K#730
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202046K#744
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200045K#699
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020100#40,470
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202084#40,470
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—21#83,270
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—21#80,648
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201618—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201713—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20248—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20188—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20267—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 39 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mosley?
We estimate roughly 6.3 million people bear Mosley (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Mosley have the most bearers?
Mosley is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled михаил.
How common is Mosley compared with other names?
In Russia, Mosley is the 21st most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
What does the name Mosley mean?
Recorded meaning: A habitational surname.
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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, “Mosley” — the 21st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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