Moana

Where Moana comes from

From Hawaiian Moana (“sea, ocean”), Māori moana, and other Polynesian languages.
— Wiktionary's entry for Moana
  • Polynesian
  • Hawaiian
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1941
    First appearance
    #3,252 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2017
    Peak, #1,552
    141 babies named Moana — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,130.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Polynesian.
  • A unisex given name from Hawaiian.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.