Baby name
FADING
🇧🇷 Moacir
/moh · ah · SEER/
Meaning
“Born of suffering or son of pain”
Tupi-Guarani indigenous name from Brazil, meaning 'born of suffering' or 'son of pain'; immortalized by José de Alencar's 1865 novel Iracema, making it a marker of Brazilian nationalist romanticism.
Nicknames
moa
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Strongly tied to mid-20th century Brazil; rare in new births but carries deep cultural identity.
The cultural moment.
Common in Brazil from the 1940s through 1970s; now rare in new births but held by older generations.