Given name & surname
Moa
“mother”
Moa is a feminine given name. It is used in Swedish.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Moa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 10 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,512 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,512 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 163 as a first name in 2020; 480 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Moa’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Moa is a Roman-alphabet rendering of もあ. In Japanese usage, Moa is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 最愛. In Japanese usage, Moa is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 桃亜.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Moa
- Moa MartinsonSwedish writer (1890–1964)
- Moa HjelmerSwedish short distance runnerborn 1990
- Moa KikuchiJapanese singer and dancer (born 1999)
- Moa GammelSwedish actressborn 1980
- Cazzi OpeiaSwedish singer, songwriterborn 1988
- Moa IlarSwedish cross-country skierborn 1997
- Moa LundgrenSwedish female cross-country skierborn 1998
- Moa Högdahl SchønningsenNorwegian handball playerborn 1996
- Moa GranatSwedish athleteborn 2004
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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