Meaning not yet researched.
Moana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,559 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,559 in 2017; #4,141 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Moana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,141 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,559.
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Moana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,559 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 141 (2017).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Moana, making it the 4,141st most common girls’ name of the year, down 932 places from #3,209 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 50 girls named Moana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,559, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 141. For comparison, it was #6,904 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Moana in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 8 babies. In all, 1,146 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 415 babies named Moana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 603 US girls were named Moana; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 141. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mona (45,818 babies since 1880) and Monae (2,291 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Moana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,141 | — | — |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,209 | — | — |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,516 | — | — |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,265 | — | — |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,153 | — | — |
| 2018 | 82 | #2,252 | — | — |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,904 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,544 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,644 | — | — |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,003 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,550 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,958 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,808 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,993 | — | — |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,388 | — | — |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,744 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,649 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,936 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,026 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,835 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,872 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,892 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,060 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,983 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,560 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,067 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,982 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,875 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,893 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,940 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,457 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,460 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,986 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,787 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,944 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,561 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,791 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,210 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,881 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,186 | — | — |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,025 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,230 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,119 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,090 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,052 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,919 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,094 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,908 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,728 | — | — |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,677 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,860 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,834 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,675 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,157 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,042 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,395 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,247 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,744 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,086 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,050 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,638 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,470 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,640 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,465 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).