Moe
Recorded 1888–2025 · United States
Moe was most popular in 1916, when 49 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,824 that year. In 2025 it ranked #16,070, with 10 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 795 people named Moe.
Moe over time
How old is the name Moe?
Moe first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1888, which makes it about 137 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 66 of the 138 years since.
How many people are named Moe?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 795 American births named Moe between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 197 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Moe in 2025?
10 American babies were named Moe in 2025, ranking #16,070 that year.
Is Moe getting more or less popular?
Moe is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 10 births a year across 2021–2025 against 9 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Moe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Moe is mostly a boy’s name — 7.8% of the 795 Americans given it were girls and 92.2% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 7% girls and 93% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Moe?
Roughly 197 Americans named Moe are alive today — 25% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 15 years old, and half are between 7 and 29.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Moe is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org