Forename Moishe

In the entire world, Moishe (משה , موشي , Moishe ) is quite a rare primarily boy's, but very infrequently feminine first name. The first name Moishe is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a rare male name, Moldova, and Lithuania, where it is a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, this name is the most popular in Israel, the United States, and Moldova. Very seldom, Moishe is the last name as well as the forename.

Jesus fish Moishe is also a name from the Bible. Explore more in our Biblical names portal!

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Moishe

name Мойше, name Mykhailo, name Михайло, name משה, name Mykhaylo, name موشي, name Myxajlo, name Moische, name Mychajlo, name Mihajlo, name Моише, name Moishe

VARIANT	COUNTRY
משה	Israel
موشي	Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia
Moishe	Moldova, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Мойше	Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania

First names said to be same

Mihajlo, Moische, Mychajlo, Mykhailo, Mykhaylo, Myxajlo, Михайло, and Моише

First name Moishe in the context

Moishe is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Moses , the Abrahamic prophet said to have led the Israelites out of Egypt, The Qur’an and Moishe Oofnik , the character from the Israeli version of Sesame Street, cousin of Oscar the Grouch, Rechov SumSum.

Notable namesakes

	moishe finkel Yiddish theatre performer, MD (b. 1850)
	moishe oysher Jewish American actor and cantor, US (b. 1907)
	moishe sternbuch South African rabbi, GB (b. 1926)
	moishe lewis Canadian trade unionist, CA (b. 1888)
	moishe weisman (b. 1885)
	moishe girsh Victim of the Holocaust, UA (b. 1910)
	moishe smith American painter, US (b. 1929)
	moishe rosen American minister (1932-2010), US (b. 1932)
	moishe kantorowitz (b. 1923)
	moishe postone American historian, Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Modern History and the College, University of Chicago, CA (b. 1942)
	moishe mana Israeli-born American businessman, IL (b. 1950)
	moishe tokar Russian revolutionary
	moishe rozenblum Victim of the Holocaust, PL
	moishe zacharevsky SE (b. 1983)

Characteristic surnames

Katz, Feldman, Sinitsky, Sternhill, Schwartz, Schwarcz, Goldberg, Grossman, Lebovits, Heimowitz, Horowitz, Friedman, Silverman, Bamberger, Rosenberg, Goldstein, Greenberg, Mendlowitz, Scheinfeld, Schwarzman, Rottenberg, Teitelbaum, Frankel, Traxler, Grunhut, Deutsch, Perl, Stern, Amsel, Cohen, Braun, Kahan, Klein, Garde, Gubin, Gross, Herskovits, Engel, Fried, Weiss, Singer, Berger, Kramer, Landau, Freund, Fisher, Shemtov, Ragieme, Vogel, and Lichtenstein