Moya is a female first name.
Recently, the name Moya has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Moya. That means that a girl named Moya is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Moya.
If your name is Moya your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Moya never ranked higher than position 2,826 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Moya. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1954 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Moya because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Moya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Moya still proves to be very exceptional. In 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be more precise, it was given at most four times, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Moya who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.
Meeting a woman or girl named Moya is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Moya can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Moya. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Moya living in one state or another (if your name is Moya and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Moya is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00005% of all female residents are named Moya – that’s just one in 2,130,416! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 7 women with that name. So, if your name is Moya, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Moya is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Moya and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Moya, you can simply say:
Mouse
Orange
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Moya
Moya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
O
Y
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
O
Y
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Moya sounds like this:
