Entry № 6949 · Slavic origin

Mokosh Mokosh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MOH-kohsh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Slavic
Meaning
"Slavic earth mother goddess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Slavic)

A name that means "slavic earth mother goddess".

Mokosh (Мокошь) is the Slavic earth mother goddess — the only female deity in Prince Vladimir's pre-Christian Kievan pantheon (980 CE). Patroness of women, spinning, weaving, and the fertility of the earth.

Her name survives in many East Slavic toponyms.

Slavic earth mother. The only goddess in Vladimir's pre-Christian pantheon.

The name in its native script.

Мокошь
Transliteration
Mokosh
Pronunciation
/ ˈmoʊ.kɒʃ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mokosh stands.

Mokosh does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mokoshs before her.

Real people
Mokosh
Slavic goddess.
In fiction
Mokosh
Slavic earth mother.
Slavic mythology

Names connected to Mokosh.

The number behind Mokosh.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mokosh reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.