Moya

Moya is the 1,978th most common surname in the United States, shared by 17,789 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,800.

By the numbers

People: 17,789
Rank: 1,978th
How common: 1 in 16,800
Per 100,000: 6.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Moya described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 89.3%
White, not Hispanic 7.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Moya

Miguel Ángel Moyá (born 1984)Spanish footballer
Roberto Moya (1965–2020)Cuban athletics competitor
Pol Moya (born 1996)Andorran male middle-distance runner
Luis Moya (born 1960)rally driver
Víctor Moya (born 1982)Cuban high jumper
Edu Moya (born 1981)Spanish footballer

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

Surnames like Moya

Also a first name

Moya has been given to 627 American babies as a first name since 1923, peaking in 2003. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.