girls:
7.7k births since 1913
#1848 (68th percentile)
overall:
7.7k births since 1913
#3066 (60th percentile)
The name Moira is the #3,066 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,742 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 60.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,848 (67.7% percentile) for all time with 7,742 births since 1913.
Moira first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for girls in 1913). Birth data for Moira is available in 105 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Moira reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 18.1% percentile (ranked #620) with 78 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 78 births per million (ranked 18.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Moira ranks #839 for girls (11.4% percentile) with 65 births per million, which is 82.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Moira".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Moira is pronounced as MOY-ruh, which has 2 syllables.
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