Given name & surname
Moona
“hope”·“to shed blood”·“God is with me”
Moona is a variant of Muna. Interpretations include “hope”, “to shed blood”, and “God is with me” (Arabic). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Moona is a variant of Muna. Interpretations include “hope”, “to shed blood”, and “God is with me” (Arabic). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Moona is a variant of Muna. An origin associated with Muna is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Moona through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 30
- 0 boys · 30 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,520 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. 16,520 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 124 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Moona’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Moona was borrowed from the Swedish form Mona. Moona has a related form in Muna.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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