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First name origin & meaning:

Hebrew: Drawn out of the water

First name variations: Mose, Mosya, Moey, Moss, Moshe, Moishe, Mosheh, Moyes, Moyse, Mosie, Moses

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Moe or (modernized) Mo, from Old Norse mór ‘plain’, ‘moor’, ‘heath’.
  2. Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from mo ‘sandy heathland’.

This name appears in the following lists: Olympic Medalists