Moína

surname · Latin script

Moína is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Boyer lists this as an Irish name, meaning perhaps ‘noble’. She gives Moyna as an alternative spelling.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 3.4M(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

3 people

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.4M (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Moina in PE Peru, US United States, PH Philippines and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Boyer lists this as an Irish name, meaning perhaps ‘noble’. She gives Moyna as an alternative spelling.

Sources 2

  • Irish first names
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Moína counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Moína is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden31 in 3.4M3——
PE Peru———Moina23
PH Philippines———Moina8
US United States——148Moina39
IN India——9Moina5
AR Argentina——56Moina24
EC Ecuador——13Moina21
SV El Salvador———Moina1

3 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Moína is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, India, United States, Egypt

    Also written Moina, Moïna, Mõīña, Moină

  • French given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, Peru

    Also written Moina, Moïna, Mōïnã, Môînà, Möïñâ

  • Romanian name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania

    Also written Moina, Moină

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Moina, Moïna

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Moína under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Moína mean, and where does it come from?
Boyer lists this as an Irish name, meaning perhaps ‘noble’. She gives Moyna as an alternative spelling. Recorded by Irish first names and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
In which country does Moína have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 3 people named Moína, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Moína most common?
Moína is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Moína?
In Sweden, the national register counted 3 people named Moína, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Moína”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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