Moraa
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/moɾaa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moraa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common surname.
- KEKenya≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 913K
- ESSpain≈1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moraa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #78 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Moraa | 49 |
| IN India | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 10 | Moraa | 10 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 913K | — | Moraa | 4 |
| US United States | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 6.5M | listed | Moraa | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Moraa | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Moraa | 6 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mary Moraab. 2000KEKenyan sprinter
- Sarah Moraab. 2005KEKenyan athlete (born 2005)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #29,919 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #128,791 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Moraa?
- A machine transcription gives /moɾaa/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Moraa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Moraa in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moraa.
- How common is the name Moraa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48,000 people in Kenya have Moraa as their first surname, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Moraa compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Moraa is the 78th most common surname of 179,147 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Moraa?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moraaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Moraa” — the 78th most common surname in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.