Moïra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Moïra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Ancient Greek μοῖρα (moîra).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 9.4K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 9.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Moïra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 394 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
33,898 named Maura, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Moira in US United States, GB United Kingdom, ZA South Africa and 3 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)
From the Ancient Greek μοῖρα (moîra).
Sources 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Irish first names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moïra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 33,898as Maura | 1 in 6.2K | 40K | — | 5 |
| US United States | — | 23,594as Maura | 1 in 14K | 24K | Moira | 394 |
| GB United Kingdom | #600 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | 4 | Moira | 195 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 6 | Moira | 89 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Moira | 56 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,634as Maura | 1 in 3K | 5.6K | — | 3 |
| IE Ireland | #484 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Moira | 75 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 352 | 1 in 49K | 651 | Moira | 36 |
33,898 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INEC — civil registry names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Moïra Mikolajczakb. 1979researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7333-1578
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 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 38 | #9,957 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Moïra mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Ancient Greek μοῖρα (moîra). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 3 other sources.
- Is Moïra a male or female name?
- Moïra is a female 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 Moïra have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 34 thousand people named Maura, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Moïra?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 352 people named Moïra, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
- How common is Moïra compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Moïra is the 484th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mo%C3%AFraThe 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, “Moïra” — the 484th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.