Moma
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Acronym of Museum of Modern Art
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmoʊmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 455K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 523K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Proficient.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Moma is read(measured from records)
Moma is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English37%
Acronym of Museum of Modern Art.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Moma in Arabic.
- Swahili9.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Moma in Swahili.
- French8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Moma in French.
- Spanish6.9%
Montagu's blenny (Coryphoblennius galerita)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moma 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Moma | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 455K | listed | Moma | 13 |
| IN India | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 10M | 1 | — | 5 |
| US United States | 125 | 1 in 2.7M | 201 | Moma | 106 |
| PH Philippines | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Moma | 6 |
| BE Belgium | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 523K | — | Moma | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 15 | 1 in 1.2M | 15 | — | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 601K | — | Moma | 2 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Moma is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Proficient.
as a nameThe African book of names
In cic, all of the
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dag, ripe KO
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Basque, ( V-ger-m ) Ref.: A ; Ort Voc ( momie ) ; Arzdi Peces ( momarra, pitarrosa ) . "Un pez sin escamas, del tamaño de la merluza, muy poco sabroso" A . "( Scyllium canicula )" Arzdi Peces .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Laetitia Moma Bassokob. 1993CMCameroonian volleyball player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 201 | #96,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 125 | #134,712 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 117 | #133,114 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 95 | #3,038 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 15 | #54,874 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Moma come from?
- Proficient. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Moma?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmoʊmə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Moma mean?
- In English, Acronym of Museum of Modern Art.
- In which country does Moma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 506 people named Moma in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moma.
- How common is the name Moma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 125 people named Moma in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/momaThe 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, “Moma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.