Comments for the name Moses

Moses Malone was one of the greatest NBA basketball players of all time. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001.

Moses means Baby drawn out of the Water. In the book of Genesis, Pharaoh's wife finds a baby in a basket in the water, she adopts him and names him Moses. He led the Isrealites across the Red Sea. This is a very Biblical name!

Moses was adopted by the daughter of Pharoah not his wife.

Moses is Woody Allen's oldest child.

Gwyneth Palthrow and Chris Martin have one son, Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, born on 8th April 2006 in New York City at 9 am.

This is such a cute name! I would love to name a boy Moses!

This is a lovely name to call your son!

Not that I'm anti-Semitic, but it doesn't sound like a good name for a human. It would however, make a good name for a big cat. :)

LOL. Yeah, I suppose any cat would rather be drawn out of water than thrown in. What the cat was doing in the water in the first place I don't know. ;)

In Ancient Egyptian, it translates as "he is born".

I'm not big on Biblical names, but this one doesn't sound as pompous and foreign as all those ludicrous -iah names. Plus, the name can be shortened to Moe. It sounds okay on dark-haired, preferably Jewish guys, but Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have a blond son named Moses, and that's ridiculous.

I disagree with this comment. There are plenty of Jews with blond hair (despite what a lot of people believe). I do agree that it best suits Jewish guys, though. This name isn't really my style; it's just okay.

Gwyneth is in fact Jewish and raise her children under that religion.

I like this name.

In regards to the above poster, it's ridiculous to say a name needs to be restricted to people with a certain hair color.

I like this name a lot. Moses was always one of my favorite Biblical characters, and the name has a nice sound. Something I have noticed is that this name seems to have been much more popular among non-white people, especially in the 19th century with African-Americans. I can see how it would have had a more symbolic meaning then, as Moses led his people out of slavery.

BtN doesn't seem to understand the richness and complexity of ancient languages, particularly Hebrew. Why can't the name Moses mean "son," "deliver," and "drawn"? All of these meanings are perfect for him. He was the son of a Levite and the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He was the deliverer. And he was drawn from the water and drawn to the God of his ancestors to become the deliverer. It seems to me that every meaning behind his name is completely accurate and appropriate. The Biblical etymology is not "invented."
Anyway, Moses comes from the Hebrew mashah, which means "to draw." This is probably an Egyptian verb, given its relationship to an Egyptian name. Hebrew is primarily a Chaldean-Phoenician hybrid, but it has some Egyptian influences (possibly including the name Aaron).

Saint Moses the Ethiopian, who was an ascetic Christian monk and priest in Egypt during the fourth century.

This name just reminds me of a poem I read once: "Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously. For nobody's toeses are posies of roses as Moses supposes his toeses to be."