Moira — #1896 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Moira

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,847 babies named Moira between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Moira currently holds the #1896 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1963, when 144 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Moira performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,215 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Moira shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 887 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Moira in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Moira 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 7,847 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.