Moira

Moira is a character in the novel The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Moira is portrayed by Samira Wiley on the Hulu program based on the novel. On the show, the name is pronounced MOY-ra. (The only Moira I knew in real life pronounced it more like it rhymed with aura.)

Moira is the name of one of the main characters on the amazing and hilarious tv show on Netflix, “Schitts Creek”. I recommend this show to anyone who loves or hates the name Moira because this show will really make you see the name in a whole new way.

Moira O'Hara is the housekeeper for the Harmon family in American Horror Story: Murder House.

Moira Quirk (Mo for short) was the referee on the Nickelodeon game show GUTS.

Moira is the name given to Wendy's granddaughter and subsequent wife of Peter Pan in the 1991 film "Hook". Moira is also the first of Wendy Darling's two middle names.

Moira Gunn is an American radio host.
Moira Crone is an American author.

Moira Harris (born 1954 in Pontiac, Illinois) is an American actress.

Moira Kelly (born 1968 in New York City) is an American actress.

One of the shop keepers at Gaia Online is named Moira.

A gorgeous name, borne by:
Moira Redmond (1928-2006), British actress
Moira Stuart (b. 1949), British newsreader of Afro-Caribbean parentage

Moira is a minor character in Dan Simmons' Olympus.

Moira is the name of one of the neighbor girls in "8 Simple Rules."

Moira is the name of a town in Co Down, Northern Ireland. Its name is taken from the Irish "Maigh Rath" which means "plain of the ring forts". It is located between Lisburn and Lurgan and is mainly Protestant.

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Also, in 637 AD, Moira was the site of a victory by the King of Tara over Comgall, King of Ulster.

Moira Byrne was the daughter of Morgan Rowlands and Hunter Niall in the series of books Sweep by Cate Tiernan. Moira only appears in the last book, Night's Child. I think this is a lovely name!

Moira is the name of the main character in the Robert Munsch book 'Moira's Birthday'.

Moira Kelly is an actress best known for role as Chad Michael Murray's mother Karen Roe on the television show "One Tree Hill". Also, she is the voice of Nala in Disney's "The Lion King" series.

Moira McTaggert from X-men. She was a Scottish scientist and friend of Professor Xavier.

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I think Moira is an awesome name! I think it's way better pronounced MOY-ra because I can't think of many names that sound much like that. It gives it originality. When people pronounced MOR-A I think it just sounds like other common names like Dora, Nora, etc.

British dancer and actress Moira Shearer (Dumfermline, Scotland, January 26, 1926 - Oxford, England, January 31, 2006) bore this name. She appeared in six films - The Red Shoes (1948), The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), The Story of Three Loves (1953), The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955), and Les collants noires and Peeping Tom (both 1960). Though she remained a dancer more than an actress, in movies she is, however, best remembered for her performance as Vicky Page in The Red Shoes.

There's a hot character on The L Word named Moira.

This name always makes me think of Peter Pan.
"Wendy Moira Angela Darling--"
"Wendy's enough."