Munu
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Munu is a given name, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.
- GWGuinea-Bissau1 in 22◐
- KRSouth Korea1 in 112
- HKHong Kong1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈644K ●
- #294 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 475 ●
- 1 in 112 ◐
across 13 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
2.6M records
Official registry-verified
South Korea
Spellings & scripts●
9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mann in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NO Norway and 9 more, Man in AR Argentina, HK Hong Kong, MX Mexico, Muñ in CR Costa Rica, PE Peru and Maina in NG Nigeria, BR Brazil.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #24 | 464,047 | 256K rec. | 1 in 112 | 477K | 문 | 126 |
| US United States | #303 | 83,510 | 771K rec. | 1 in 4K | 84K | Mann | 475 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #5 | 75,287 | 19 rec. | — | 14K | Mane | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | #260 | 75,177 | 63K rec. | — | 3 | Mann | 212 |
| MY Malaysia | #129 | 31,832 | 52K rec. | — | — | Mun | 102 |
| AU Australia | #244 | 30,338 | 32K rec. | — | 3 | Mann | 189 |
| DE Germany | #231 | 28,056 | 26K rec. | — | 1 | Mann | 176 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 27,421△ | 191 rec. | 1 in 186 | 27K | Muñ | 15 |
| CA Canada | #243 | 22,931 | 22K rec. | — | 6 | Mann | 175 |
| ES Spain | — | 21,695△ | 7.1K rec. | 1 in 2.3K | 22K | Manu | 70 |
| PE Peru | — | 16,392 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Muñ | 32 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 15,742△ | 79 rec. | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | — | 14 |
Roughly 464K people in South Korea bear this name (about 1 in 112). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi22K71%
- 5.1K17%
- Bangla1.1K4%
- Swahili5192%
- English5062%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 21,533 | 71% |
| 5,134 | 17% | |
| Bangla | 1,072 | 4% |
| Swahili | 519 | 2% |
| English | 506 | 2% |
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●
Munu is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In non, denoting futurity will, shall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pjt, and (non-switching)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kde, person, human being
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In azg, spider monkey
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, will, shall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In apy, blood
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1917 | 1 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1923 | 4 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1925 | 3 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 3 |
| 1932 | 3 |
| 1933 | 4 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1935 | 2 |
| 1936 | 4 |
| 1937 | 2 |
| 1938 | 7 |
| 1939 | 8 |
| 1940 | 6 |
| 1941 | 7 |
| 1942 | 11 |
| 1943 | 7 |
| 1944 | 12 |
| 1945 | 8 |
| 1946 | 10 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 10 |
| 1949 | 12 |
| 1950 | 13 |
| 1951 | 12 |
| 1952 | 20 |
| 1953 | 14 |
| 1954 | 20 |
| 1955 | 21 |
| 1956 | 24 |
| 1957 | 29 |
| 1958 | 24 |
| 1959 | 23 |
| 1960 | 21 |
| 1961 | 33 |
| 1962 | 59 |
| 1963 | 37 |
| 1964 | 36 |
| 1965 | 39 |
| 1966 | 52 |
| 1967 | 63 |
| 1968 | 49 |
| 1969 | 43 |
| 1970 | 49 |
| 1971 | 61 |
| 1972 | 59 |
| 1973 | 71 |
| 1974 | 75 |
| 1975 | 53 |
| 1976 | 59 |
| 1977 | 55 |
| 1978 | 55 |
| 1979 | 66 |
| 1980 | 41 |
| 1981 | 60 |
| 1982 | 63 |
| 1983 | 67 |
| 1984 | 56 |
| 1985 | 66 |
| 1986 | 53 |
| 1987 | 66 |
| 1988 | 34 |
| 1989 | 42 |
| 1990 | 42 |
| 1991 | 56 |
| 1992 | 76 |
| 1993 | 40 |
| 1994 | 46 |
| 1995 | 49 |
| 1996 | 19 |
| 1997 | 36 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2001 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 |
| 2008 | 13 |
| 2010 | 2 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 22 |
| 2015 | 6 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 88 years between 1917–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 176 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Munu?
- We estimate roughly 644 thousand people bear Munu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Munu have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 464 thousand people bear Munu in South Korea, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled 문.
- How common is Munu compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Munu is the 24th most common surname of 14,083 surnames recorded there.
- Is Munu a male or female name?
- Munu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Query this name via API
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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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Munu” — the 24th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.