The MOYA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,526	2451	0.005	50
United States (1880 census)	329	13328	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+13197	+10877	+0.004	+43
Other Countries
Australia	66	20272	0	4
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MOYA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	3,082	1332	0.009	91
Texas	3,069	1053	0.015	147
Florida	1,597	1608	0.010	100
New Mexico	1,152	182	0.063	633
New York	647	3767	0.003	34
Top States for MOYA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Mexico	1,152	182	0.063	633
Texas	3,069	1053	0.015	147
Colorado	434	1607	0.010	101
Florida	1,597	1608	0.010	100
California	3,082	1332	0.009	91

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MOYA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MOYA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MOYA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MOYA by picking someone at random in New Mexico than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MOYA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MOYA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MOYA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MOYA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	306	2.26
Black/African American	97	0.72
Mixed Race	80	0.59
Native American/Alaskan	57	0.42
White (Hispanic)	11,883	87.85
White (Caucasian)	1,104	8.16

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MOYA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MOYA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOYA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.