Unruly
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Unruly is a given name, most frequently recorded in Jamaica, where it is the 90th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Vietnamese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Wild; uncontrolled.
- JMJamaica1 in 5.5K◐
- BBBarbados1 in 67K
- GHGhana1 in 181K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 1.4K ●
- Sources
- 15 ●
in 5 countries
1.5K records
Official registry-verified
Meaning & origin●
Wild; uncontrolled.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JM Jamaica | #90 | 852 | 1K rec. | — | Unruly | 7 |
| US United States | — | 266 | 313 rec. | — | Unruly | 15 |
| GH Ghana | #923 | 94 | 96 rec. | — | Unruly | 9 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 24 | 28 rec. | — | Unruly | 3 |
| BB Barbados | #96 | 19 | 11 rec. | — | Unruly | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | 10 | 12 rec. | — | Unruly | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 10 | 10 rec. | — | Unruly | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 9 | 10 rec. | — | Unruly | 1 |
| VN Vietnam | — | 7 | 6 rec. | — | Unruly | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1.1K70%
- Vietnamese1349%
- Spanish664%
- English (Jamaica)513%
- Hindi393%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,094 | 70% |
| Vietnamese | 134 | 9% |
| Spanish | 66 | 4% |
| English (Jamaica) | 51 | 3% |
| Hindi | 39 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Unruly?
- Our records include 1,428 bearers of Unruly across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Unruly have the most bearers?
- Unruly is most frequently recorded in Jamaica, where it is most often spelled unruly.
- How common is Unruly compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Unruly is the 90th most common given name of 20,217 given names recorded there.
- Is Unruly a male or female name?
- Unruly is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Unruly mean?
- Recorded meaning: Wild; uncontrolled.
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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, “Unruly” — the 90th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.