Moana
- #4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births
- Around 2016: Moana (film)
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 141 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,146since 1941
Moana over time
Rank among girls' names. Moana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 |
| 2024 | #3,176 | 50 |
| 2023 | #3,833 | 39 |
| 2022 | #3,470 | 45 |
| 2021 | #3,002 | 55 |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 |
| 2019 | #3,130 | 51 |
| 2018 | #2,238 | 82 |
| 2017 | #1,552 | 141 |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 |
| 2008 | #6,799 | 19 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 |
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| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
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| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 |
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| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 |
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Moana! It came in at #3,252, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1952, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Moana is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| California | #3,095 | 5 | 1 in 32,345 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Moana
- 846 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #4,067)
- 2,654 spots since 2015 (#6,721 → #4,067)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 2017 at #1,552 (141 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,244 girls born in 2017 were named Moana (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 45,922 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 36.2% of all girls named Moana (415) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 16 | #3,252 (1941) | #3,348 |
| 1950s | 53 | #3,490 (1954) | #4,741 |
| 1960s | 37 | #4,773 (1960) | #5,176 |
| 1970s | 108 | #4,492 (1970) | #5,401 |
| 1980s | 76 | #5,911 (1982) | #7,762 |
| 1990s | 59 | #9,017 (1997) | #11,473 |
| 2000s | 110 | #6,799 (2008) | #10,088 |
| 2010s | 415 | #1,552 (2017) | #6,116 |
| 2020s | 272 | #3,002 (2021) | #3,462 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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