Mossie
Mossie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 720th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192135 births
- Best rank
- #720in 1886
- Since 1884
- 1,051people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,051 girls have been named Mossie in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 35 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 35 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1921, its biggest year
Mossie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Mossie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eurapeak 1920
- Flossiepeak 1919
- Goldiepeak 1915
- Maudiepeak 1918
- Eulahpeak 1915
- Exiepeak 1921
- Goldapeak 1915
- Ressiepeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.