Muara
loc · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Muara is a name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: mouth: the end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
- IDIndonesia1 in 810◐
- PHPhilippines1 in 140K
- BNBrunei1 in 707
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 163K ●
- Sources
- 46 ●
in 5 countries
1.4K records
Official registry-verified
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Estuaria in PH Philippines, AU Australia, US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
mouth: the end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | 128,108 | 112 rec. | — | — | Muara | 46 |
| PH Philippines | 1,669 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Estuaria | 17 |
| MY Malaysia | 528 | 5 rec. | — | — | Muara | 8 |
| BN Brunei | 332 | 0 rec. | — | — | Muara | 1 |
| AU Australia | 11 | 13 rec. | — | — | Estuaria | 2 |
| US United States | 5 | 12 rec. | — | — | Estuaria | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | 51 | — | — |
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Languages●
- Indonesian128K79%
- Malay8601%
- Hindi641%
- Urdu101%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 128,087 | 79% |
| Malay | 860 | 1% |
| Hindi | 64 | 1% |
| Urdu | 10 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Muara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Malay, mouth (the end of a river out of which water flows)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of muar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, river mouth that empties into the sea
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In zlm, estuary; river mouth
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bbc, mouth of a river
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 51 | #34,417 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 46 | #49,913 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 41 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #76,244 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Muara?
- Our records include 162,587 bearers of Muara across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Muara have the most bearers?
- Muara is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled muara.
- What does the name Muara mean?
- Recorded meaning: mouth: the end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Muara”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.