Spanish: habitational name from Moya, in Cuenca, or from places
so named Valencia, Lugo, and the Canaries.Catalan
(Moyà): variant spelling of the habitational name from
Moià in Barcelona province, named in Late Latin as Modianus
‘(estate) of Modius’ (a personal name derived from Latin
modus ‘measure’).
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