Мо
loc · Cyrillic script
Meaning: MOD (“ministry of defence”), DOD (“department of defense”); abbreviation of министерства обороны (ministerstva oborony) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Мо is a name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common given name. Мо is also written Moh in Latin and 모희 in Korean (Hangul).
- RURussia≈1 in 3.9M(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 7.2Mfew records
- UAUkraine≈1 in 7.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Мо itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 named Moh, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Мо in other scripts: Latin and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled Moh in ID Indonesia, IN India, DZ Algeria and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)MOD (“ministry of defence”), DOD (“department of defense”); abbreviation of министерства обороны (ministerstva oborony)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Мо counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #76 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Moh | 167 |
| DZ Algeria | #18 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 469 | listed | Moh | 29 |
| IN India | — | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 2.7K | Moh | 57 |
| EG Egypt | #641 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Moh | 61 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #734 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Moh | 32 |
| TN Tunisia | #492 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Moh | 13 |
| KW Kuwait | #444 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Moh | 27 |
| PL Poland | — | 44as Moh | 1 in 870K | 44 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Мо | 101 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Мо 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 Ukrainian, alternative spelling of мо' (moʺ)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In chm, really? isn't it so?
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Belarusian, maybe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dng, hair
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ddo, tear
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mo Yanb. 1955CNnot in their usual nameChinese novelist and screenwriter
- Karen Mokb. 1970CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress and singer-songwriter
- Mo Tae-bumb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean speed skater
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Мо mean, and where does it come from?
- MOD (“ministry of defence”), DOD (“department of defense”); abbreviation of министерства обороны (ministerstva oborony) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Мо?
- Mondonomo estimates about 160 thousand people named Moh in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Algeria, India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Мо?
- In Poland, the national register counted 44 people named Moh in 2026, about 1 in 870 thousand residents.
- How common is Мо compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Мо is the 76th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%BC%D0%BEThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Мо” — the 76th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.