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An odd sounding name. I don't really like that it's so short either.
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I don't really like it because it sounds too similar to "moan".
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Moa Kikuchi is a member of the heavy metal Japanese girl group known as Baby Metal.
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Moa is my daughters name. My mother is Swedish and I fell in love with the name while working in Sweden. I have never come across anyone pronouncing it as MOO - ah. To me it was more like a gentle Mo- wah which is how we say it - however it doesn't sound all that gentle when spoken in a Scottish accent!
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It's my name, and I was named after the novelist Moa Martinson. I think the early Moas probably all were, and then the younger Moas were named Moa because it was cute (I can't imagine 17 000 parents being such devoted fans to Moa Martinson that they would name their daughter after her, but hey, maybe they were). Fun fact - in Sweden Moa is 3 times as common as the name Mia & Molly. I think Molly will probably outrun Moa at some point though.
I once met a man who said Moa meant "exhausted" in his language. I don't know which though, possibly swahili?
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I once met a man who said Moa meant "exhausted" in his language. I don't know which though, possibly swahili?
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When I think of Moa, I think of the girl in Alexander Rybak's song 'Oah'.
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Moa in most Polynesian languages means chicken or bird. I'm Poly so I would know, so in my circumstance I would never name anyone "Moa" lol.
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Pronounced MOO-ah in Swedish.
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It sounds a bit nice, but it's the name of a bird that is extinct!
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In Darwin's theory, Dreng and Moa are the couple that correspond at Adam and Eve.
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A moa was a type of large, flightless bird. It is now extinct.
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Moa is also the name of one of the main character's in Storm Thief by Chris Wooding.
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Sort of related and not listed here is the name Lillemor, meaning little mother. Lill is a nickname.
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This has gotten SO trendy in Sweden that I feel like I can't use it myself. Hardly anyone was named Moa when I grew up. I knew one, met her when I was 11 and my comment to her was "that's not a name is it?", I had never heard of it.
Now, alas, it is everywhere.
I believe this is the word used for mother in Danish. I worked with a Moa whose boyfriend had many Danish friends, and they always said things like "So how is your mother?" and giggled.
It is pronounced MO-ah.
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Now, alas, it is everywhere.
I believe this is the word used for mother in Danish. I worked with a Moa whose boyfriend had many Danish friends, and they always said things like "So how is your mother?" and giggled.
It is pronounced MO-ah.
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Moa is not Danish for mother, 'mor' is, but I see the joke, because 'mor' is sometimes pronounced 'moar'.
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Only problem is that in Sweden it is pronounced MOO-a and not MO-a.
So when using the original pronunciation it sounds a lot like a cow's name.