Moana — #3180 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Moana

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,109 babies named Moana between 1941 and 2024, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Moana currently holds the #3180 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 141 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Moana performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 414 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Moana shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 137 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Hawaii and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Moana in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Moana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,109 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.