Moyá
surname · Latin script
Moyá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 87th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 337(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 885
- ESSpain1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- 1 in 337 (inferred from the name graph)
45,483 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Moya in CL Chile, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Welsh Surnames
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moyá counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #87 | 45,483 | 1 in 1.1K | 45K | Moya | 203 |
| AR Argentina | #252 | 25,103 | 1 in 1.8K | 25K | Moya | 98 |
| CL Chile | #97 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 885 | 1 | Moya | 125 |
| VE Venezuela | #271 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Moya | 66 |
| US United States | — | 18,071 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Moya | 335 |
| CR Costa Rica | #90 | 15,121 | 1 in 337 | 15K | Moya | 90 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 11,209 | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | Moya | 59 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Moya | 43 |
45,483 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moyá mean, and where does it come from?
- Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Welsh Surnames and 1 other source.
- In which country does Moyá have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 45 thousand people named Moyá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moya.
- Where is Moyá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Moyá is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 337 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Moyá?
- In Spain, the national register counted 45,483 people named Moyá, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Moyá compared with other names?
- In Spain, Moyá is the 87th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moy%C3%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Moyá” — the 87th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.