Moana

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Moana

By the numbers

Total US births

1,146

Estimated living today

1,100

Median age today

9

Peak year

2017

Best rank

1,552nd

Rank in 2025

4,067th

First recorded

1941

How old the living Moanas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,146 babies given the name since 1941, about 1,100 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 710 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Polynesian

From Hawaiian Moana (“sea, ocean”), Maori moana, and other Polynesian languages.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Moanas

• Moana Pozzi (1961–1994)Italian television presenter and pornographic actress
• Moana Carcasses Kalosil (born 1963)Vanuatuan politician

People named Moana with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Moana is most common

• CA142
• HI85
• FL31
• TX28
• NC11
• PA11
• NY8
• AZ8
• GA6
• WA5

Relative to how many babies each state records, Moana is most concentrated in Hawaii (81.8×), California (4.2×), Florida (2.7×), Texas (1.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2017

The most popular girls’ names the year Moana peaked:

• Emma
• Olivia
• Ava
• Isabella
• Sophia
• Mia

All the names of 2017

Moana elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Moana: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Moana is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.04% of children were given it – 40 of them.

Moana: rank by region

In 2021, Moana was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Moana by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Moana among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.