Names of Myanmar (Burma) MM

A large share of people in Myanmar (Burma) carry a single name, with no family name to follow it; the names that most distinguish Myanmar (Burma) from the rest of the world are Kyaw, Aung and Zaw.

Written in Burmese.

Population
57M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
4.8K
BBuilt from 2 official registers, 4,771 name forms in our corpus, 8 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

How names work in Myanmar (Burma)

3 naming traditions are in use in Myanmar (Burma), listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Myanmar (Burma)

No inherited surnames here

Burmese names are traditionally single or multi-element units with no surname component at all, so neither a surname list nor a given/surname split applies. Names should land in `full`, as with the Indonesian compounds. Our record corpus does hold "surnames" for this country, but they are largely records of residents from elsewhere, so we do not publish them as a ranking.

Characteristic of Myanmar (Burma)

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Myanmar (Burma) holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

KyawAungZawZinMyatLwinPhyoTunေမာငကြီးMyoChitAyeKhinThuKaungThetThanျမတPyaeသနခ်စ္မိုးေနျဖSaiကိုကိုမင္းNyiThihaThiေမEimonလမင္းThuraမေအးHninThinThaeအလင္းShweမာသူရိန္JamesHlaMichaelSandarKayAshinဖိုးRobertခိုင္YinစိုငZayWilliamKyawkyawဆူးYairလေရာင္
Sized by how much of the difference between Myanmar (Burma)'s name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Names in Myanmar (Burma) are written in Latin (99%) and Myanmar (1%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Kyawgiven name●
Aunggiven name●
Zawgiven name●
Zingiven name●
Tungiven name●
The best-attested names in Myanmar (Burma), in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Do people in Myanmar (Burma) have surnames?
Burmese names are traditionally single or multi-element units with no surname component at all, so neither a surname list nor a given/surname split applies. Names should land in `full`, as with the Indonesian compounds.
Is there one naming system in Myanmar (Burma)?
No — 3 are described on this page (Burmese, Shan, Karen), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Myanmar (Burma)”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/MM (data snapshot 2026-09-12).