How Many People Are Named Moana?
people named Moana are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 308,470 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,146 babies named Moana in Social Security records from 1941 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
141 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "ocean, wide expanse of water, deep sea" in Maori and Hawaiian (as well as in other Polynesian languages).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Moana in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Moana alive today is about 20 years old, and 74% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 31 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Moana first appears in the records in 1941 and was given most often in 2017, to 141 babies. In 2025, 35 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1941 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Moana has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,559, in 2017. In 2025 it ranked #4,140.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,140 |
| Best rank | #1,559 (2017) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #3,742 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Moana alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Moana were born in California than in any other state: about 141 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Moana was given 111.1 times as often in Hawaii and 3.2 times in California.
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