Moira

Where Moira comes from

Anglicized from Irish Máire, a cognate of Mary. Doublet of Maura.
— Wiktionary's entry for Moira
  • Irish
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #3,187 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1923
    Moira Lister born
    actress
  3. 1965
    Peak, #832
    143 babies named Moira — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1968
    Moira Kelly born
    American actress
  5. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,444.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes
  • Moira Kelly · American actress, born 1968
  • Moira Lister · actress, 1923–2007
  • Moira Shearer · British ballerina and actress, 1926–2006
  • Moira Abernethy · South African swimmer, born 1939
  • Moira Walley-Beckett · Canadian-American television actress, producer and writer, born 2000

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.