Meaning not yet researched.
Moon: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 52 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,485 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,485 in 2022; #3,123 in 2025. About 80% of babies named Moon in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,123 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,485.
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Moon: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 52 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,485 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 73 (2022).
In 2025, 52 US girls were named Moon, making it the 3,123rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 246 places from #3,369 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 47 girls named Moon in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,485, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 73. For comparison, it was #12,651 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Moon, making it the 6,691st most common boys’ name of the year, down 871 places from #5,820 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 16 boys named Moon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,961, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 28. For comparison, it was #13,415 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Moon in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 6 babies. In all, 627 US babies have been given the name, 74% of them girls and 26% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 410 babies named Moon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 384 US girls were named Moon; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 73. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Luna (87,834 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mone, Mohan and Mon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mone (515), Mohan (332), Mon (10), Mun (5), Moone (5).
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 Moon 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 | 52 | #3,123 | 13 | #6,691 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,369 | 16 | #5,820 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,127 | 28 | #3,961 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,485 | 22 | #4,650 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,377 | 21 | #4,722 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,718 | 10 | #7,891 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,266 | 7 | #10,466 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,640 | 14 | #6,228 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,769 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,910 | — | — |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,651 | 5 | #13,415 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,728 | — | — |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,796 | 5 | #13,429 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #11,731 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,616 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,320 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,777 | 5 | #11,749 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,711 | — | — |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,764 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,830 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,783 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,394 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,326 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,686 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,676 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,913 | — | — |
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).