Mojżesz
A Hebrew name meaning "drawn out of water". It stays rare in Poland: fewer than a hundred men carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and newborns are almost unheard of.
Mojżesz Pronunciation
Mojżesz is pronounced MOY-zhesh (/ˈmɔjʐɛʂ/).
What Mojżesz means
Where Mojżesz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mojżesz is the Polish form of the Hebrew name Mosheh. The Book of Exodus explains it. Pharaoh's daughter finds a baby in a basket among the reeds and names him because she drew him out of the water. That is the meaning the name still holds, drawn out of water, wyjęty z wody.
Hebrew tradition ties the name to the verb mashah, to draw out. Some scholars point instead to an Egyptian root meaning child or son, the same element found in names like Thutmose. Both readings sit behind one man. He is the prophet who led his people out of Egypt.
In Poland the name belonged for centuries to Jewish families, and the man himself was read in the Torah every week. Mojżesz Schorr, a rabbi and historian, sat in the Polish Senate before the war. On a class register the name marked a boy plainly as Jewish.
Mojżesz has no Polish diminutives of its own. It stands as it is, wyjęty z wody.
How many people are named Mojżesz
1 in 229529 men in Poland is named Mojżesz. 93 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3612 among male names.
Mojżesz's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Mojżesz as a middle name
Mojżesz is a first name for 93 men in Poland and a middle name for another 34, a 73/27 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1419th, between Mauro (34) and Nicolaas (34).
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#1417 Khanh34
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#1418 Mauro34
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#1419 Mojżesz34
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#1420 Nicolaas34
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#1421 Nino34