Moira
Moira is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 105 births. Its best rank was 833rd, in 1965.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1050.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1963144 births
- Best rank
- #833in 1965
- Since 1913
- 7,847people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,847 girls have been named Moira in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 144 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 2000s alone account for 15%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Moira | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | |
| 1920s | 69 | |
| 1930s | 151 | |
| 1940s | 256 | |
| 1950s | 881 | |
| 1960s | 1,199 | |
| 1970s | 679 | |
| 1980s | 654 | |
| 1990s | 1,010 | |
| 2000s | 1,215 | |
| 2010s | 1,175 | |
| 2020s | 547 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Moira was the 877th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1963 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Moira
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Brigidpeak 2000
- Dariapeak 1998
- Bronwynpeak 1964
- Silvanapeak 2007
- Milagrospeak 2008
- Celestepeak 2004
- Aureapeak 2015
- Rayleenpeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.