Names of Mongolia MN

Mongolia — NSO name statistics (given + surname) records Батэрдэнэ as the commonest given name in Mongolia and Боржигон as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish Mongolia from the rest of the world are Khulan, Таиж and Bat-Erdene.

Written in Mongolian.

Population
3.2M
Official registers
13
Name forms recorded
8.8K
ABuilt from 13 official registers, 8,815 name forms in our corpus, 4 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Mongolia

Names in Mongolia follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Mongolia

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 2
Mongolia — NSO name statistics (given + surname) — 50 given names counted over residents.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Батэрдэнэ16K—
2Тэмүүлэн15K—
3Мишээл14K—
4Номинэрдэнэ14K—
5Хулан14K—
6Дөлгөөнөө13K—
7Төгөлдөр13K12
8Билгүүн13K5
9Энхжин13K16
10Мөнхэрдэнэ13K—
11Отгонбаяр12K4
12Нандинэрдэнэ12K—
13Аминэрдэнэ12K59
14Хүслэн11K37
15Алтанцэцэг11K6
16Батбаяр11K10
17Болормаа11K7
18Анужин11K26
19Оюунчимэг11K9
20Лхагвасүрэн11K17

Where the two lists disagree

21 of Mongolia — NSO name statistics (given + surname)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Mongolia — NSO name statistics (given + surname)Across all recordsбатэрдэнэ: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. батэрдэнэnot rankedтэмүүлэн: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. тэмүүлэнnot rankedмишээл: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. мишээлnot rankedноминэрдэнэ: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. номинэрдэнэnot rankedхулан: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. хуланnot rankedдөлгөөнөө: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. дөлгөөнөөnot rankedтөгөлдөр: 7 → 12 · ranks lower across all records7. төгөлдөр12билгүүн: 8 → 58. билгүүн5энхжин: 9 → 16 · ranks lower across all records9. энхжин16мөнхэрдэнэ: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. мөнхэрдэнэnot rankedотгонбаяр: 11 → 4 · ranks higher across all records11. отгонбаяр4нандинэрдэнэ: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. нандинэрдэнэnot rankedаминэрдэнэ: 13 → 59 · ranks lower across all records13. аминэрдэнэ59хүслэн: 14 → 37 · ranks lower across all records14. хүслэн37алтанцэцэг: 15 → 6 · ranks higher across all records15. алтанцэцэг6батбаяр: 16 → 10 · ranks higher across all records16. батбаяр10болормаа: 17 → 7 · ranks higher across all records17. болормаа7анужин: 18 → 26 · ranks lower across all records18. анужин26оюунчимэг: 19 → 9 · ranks higher across all records19. оюунчимэг9лхагвасүрэн: 20 → 1720. лхагвасүрэн17азжаргал: 21 → 61 · ranks lower across all records21. азжаргал61ананд: 22 → 63 · ranks lower across all records22. ананд63мөнхбат: 23 → 51 · ranks lower across all records23. мөнхбат51энхжаргал: 24 → 2024. энхжаргал20гантулга: 25 → 2225. гантулга22
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Mongolia — NSO name statistics (given + surname) on the left; every record we hold for Mongolia on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Mongolia

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Mongolia 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.

KhulanBat-ErdeneTemuulenОтгонбаярБилгүүнАлтанцэцэгОюунчимэгБолормааNomin-ErdeneТөгөлдөрMisheelБатбаярМөнх-ЭрдэнэНандин-ЭрдэнэЭнхжинЛхагвасүрэнЭрдэнэчимэгЭнхтуяаДөлгөөнХонгорзулАнужинЭнхжаргалНаранцэцэгХүслэнГантулгаПүрэвсүрэнАнхбаярНарантуяаОюунцэцэгМөнхжаргалБатцэцэгГанзоригАлтангэрэлЭнхбаярБямбасүрэнБатжаргалБаярсаиханМягмарсүрэнБаярмааГанболдУянгаГанбаатарБаттулгаНэргүиУранчимэгГанчимэгМөнхцэцэгМөнхзулСолонгоМөнхбатJunMunkhtsetsegDulguunMunkhbatАминэрдэнэDölgöönАнандЭнэрэлАзжаргалТэмүүжин
Sized by how much of the difference between Mongolia's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Names in Mongolia are written in Cyrillic (82%) and Latin (18%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Боржигонsurname●Borjigon
Khulangiven name●
Bat-Erdenegiven name●
Temuulengiven name●
Отгонбаярgiven name●Otgonbayar
The best-attested names in Mongolia, 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

What is the most common given name in Mongolia?
Батэрдэнэ, according to Mongolia — NSO name statistics (given + surname), with 16,479 bearers recorded.
What is the most common surname in Mongolia?
Боржигон, according to Mongolia — NSO name statistics (given + surname), with 745,660 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Mongolia?
Because they count different people. Mongolia — NSO name statistics (given + surname) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Батэрдэнэ. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Khulan. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Mongolia”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/MN (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Mongolia — NSO name statistics (given + surname).