Moyra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/moʊɪɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moyra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A spelling variant of Moira.
- NLNetherlands1 in 376K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1M
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 376K (inferred from the name graph)
234 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A spelling variant of Moira.
Sources 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Irish first names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moyra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 234 | 1 in 1.4M | 234 | Moyra | 68 |
| BR Brazil | 89 | 1 in 2.4M | 89 | Moyra | 37 |
| NL Netherlands | 46 | 1 in 376K | 46 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | — | 4 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
234 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 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)
- Moyra Barryb. 1886IEIrish artist (1886–1960)
- Moyra Brodrickb. 1897noblewoman; (1897-1982)
- Elizabeth Moyra Goffb. 1897(1897-1990)
- Lady Moyra Dawson-Damerb. 1897GB(1897-1962); daughter of George Dawson-Damer, 5th Earl of Portarlington
- Moyra Allenb. 1921USNurse, professor
- Moyra Fraserb. 1923AUAustralian-born British actress and ballet dancer (1923-2009)
- Lady Gillian Cecilb. 1935GBnot in their usual namedaughter of David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter
- Moyra Daveyb. 1958CACanadian artist (born 1958)
- Moyra Daleb. 1958AUAustralian academic
- Moyra ElliottNZNew Zealand curator and writer
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 614 | #14,172 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Moyra mean, and where does it come from?
- A spelling variant of Moira. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Irish first names and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Moyra?
- A machine transcription gives /moʊɪɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Moyra a male or female name?
- Moyra 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.
- What are other forms of the name Moyra?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages; Máirín is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Moyra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 234 people named Moyra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moyra.
- Where is Moyra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Moyra is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 376 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Moyra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 234 people named Moyra in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 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/moyraThe 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, “Moyra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.