Meaning not yet researched.
Moira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 93 in 2025. Its best rank was #834 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #834 in 1965; #2,047 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Moira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,047 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #834.
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Moira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 93 girls in 2025. Peak: #834 in 1965 · most girls in one year: 144 (1963).
In 2025, 93 US girls were named Moira, making it the 2,047th most common girls’ name of the year, down 139 places from #1,908 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 105 girls named Moira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #834, reached in 1965. The most girls given the name in a single year was 144, in 1963. For comparison, it was #1,638 in 2015 and #1,519 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Moira in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 7,941 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,215 babies named Moira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,139 US girls were named Moira; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 133. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,282 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Moira ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,548 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Mora and Morah are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mora (945), Morah (23).
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 Moira in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,548 | #1,002 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,634 | #825 |
| New York | 6 | #1,994 | — |
| California | 10 | #2,046 | #2,655 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,189 | #3,643 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 2022 | 94 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 2021 | 125 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 2018 | 133 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 2017 | 132 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,770 | — | — |
| 2015 | 131 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 2013 | 103 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 2012 | 115 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 2011 | 105 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 2010 | 97 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 2007 | 112 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 2004 | 124 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 2003 | 132 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 2002 | 116 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 2001 | 111 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1999 | 131 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1997 | 133 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1996 | 110 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1995 | 124 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1991 | 79 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1988 | 73 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 1980 | 70 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 1976 | 65 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 1973 | 67 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1972 | 74 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1971 | 86 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1969 | 94 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1968 | 111 | #997 | — | — |
| 1967 | 97 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1966 | 110 | #981 | — | — |
| 1965 | 143 | #834 | — | — |
| 1964 | 143 | #867 | — | — |
| 1963 | 144 | #877 | — | — |
| 1962 | 120 | #977 | — | — |
| 1961 | 113 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1960 | 124 | #963 | — | — |
| 1959 | 105 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1958 | 126 | #919 | — | — |
| 1957 | 108 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1956 | 92 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1955 | 102 | #992 | — | — |
| 1954 | 91 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1953 | 80 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1952 | 73 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1951 | 66 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1949 | 44 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 1942 | 29 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,232 | — | — |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,265 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,659 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,772 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,795 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,924 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,637 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,796 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,314 | — | — |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,919 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,255 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,542 | — | — |
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).