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Moses

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Μωυσῆς, Μωσῆς Mō(y)sēs, a Greek form of the Hebrew name מֹשֶׁה (Mosheh) of uncertain meaning. Some possibilities:

1) Egyptian mes, mesu = 'son' [1] [2]

2) Hebrew mosheh = 'deliver'

3) Arabic musa = 'foundling'

4) Hebrew mushah = 'drew out' [1] [3] [2]

5) Egyptian moshe = 'son of the Nile'

6) Egyptian mesu = 'child' [4] [3]

Related Names

Moises ♂
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Moorsasi ♂
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Moorsisi ♂
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Moose ♂
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Mooses ♂
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Môrsase ♂
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Môrsise ♂
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Mosa ♂
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Mose ♂
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Moses ♂
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Móses ♂
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Mosu ♂
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Muokko ♂
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Muoses ♂
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Muoso ♂
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See also Moshe (English)/Mosche (German), Mosse, Musa (Arabic)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Moses
Genitive: Moses'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Moses
Genitive: Moseksin
Partitive: Mosesta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Moses
Genitive: Moses'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Moses
Genitive: Moses' / Moses

Name Day

Sweden Sweden

20 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
399 679 0 12 399 667
Greenland Greenland[8]
43 172
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
 181 0 0
n.a.
 181
Denmark Denmark[10]
89
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 89
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
3 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
93
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 93
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Moses (m) Sources: [7][10][12][9]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Moses (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Moses (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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