Moya
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Moya has been given to 627 babies in the U.S. since 1923. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Moya, 2021
1 in 678,000
Moya over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Moya?
Moya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Moya sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Moyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Moya was born before 1982 — so the typical Moya is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 19.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 559
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (125).
Is Moya rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2003 (19)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.9% average annual change
Spellings of Moya
Moya is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 11.6% against Moya's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Moya is used
Across 1910–2025, Moya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,287,539 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Moya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Moya around the world
Where Moya ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–2023#5,688in 2023
- Scotland2009–2009#783in 2009
- Northern Ireland1998–2024#337in 2024
- Ireland1964–2025#483in 2025
- France2003–2025#7,409in 2025
- South Australia1944–2006#782in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Moya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Moya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Moya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.