Moad
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Moad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country. In Libya it is the 94th most common given name. Recorded meaning: unexplained. It may be a topographic name from the English word moat.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- LYLibya≈1 in 1.7K
- JOJordan≈1 in 7K
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Libya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
unexplained. It may be a topographic name from the English word moat. See also Mode.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moad 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.
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: the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Moad is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Acronym of Mother Of All Databases.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Graeme Moadb. 1952AUAustralian chemist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 571 | #4,157 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 483 | #2,163 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Moad come from?
- unexplained. It may be a topographic name from the English word moat. See also Mode. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Moad mean?
- Recorded meaning: unexplained. It may be a topographic name from the English word moat.
- Is Moad a male or female name?
- Moad is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Moad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Moad in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moad.
- How common is the name Moad?
- In Spain, the national register counted 571 people named Moad, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.
- How common is Moad compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Moad is the 667th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moadThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Moad” — the 667th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.