Moshe
A Hebrew name meaning "drawn out of water". Fewer than 350 men in Poland carry it, so most people here will go a lifetime without meeting one.
Moshe Pronunciation
What Moshe means
Where Moshe comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Moshe comes from Hebrew, the name the Bible gives to the man who led Israel out of Egypt. In the book of Exodus, Pharaoh's daughter finds a baby among the reeds of the Nile and names him, saying that she drew him out of the water. The Hebrew verb mashah means to draw out, and the short meaning follows from it: drawn out of water. Wyjęty z wody.
For Jewish families the name has rarely been ordinary. Moshe ben Maimon, the philosopher and physician known in the twelfth century as Maimonides, signed his Hebrew works under that name, and a saying holds that from Moses to Moses there was none like Moses. The name kept its plain form. It has no Polish diminutive and no softened variant.
On a Polish class register the name stands out among the Kubas and Zosias, foreign and firm. Written on an official form at the urząd, Moshe stays exactly what it was in Exodus: drawn out of water.
How many people are named Moshe
1 in 66499 men in Poland is named Moshe. 321 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1684 among male names.
Moshe's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Moshe as a middle name
Moshe is a first name for 321 men in Poland and a middle name for another 256, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 439th, between Jürgen (259) and Napoleon (256).
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#437 Dobrosław260
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#438 Jürgen259
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#439 Moshe256
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#440 Napoleon256
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#441 Omar256