Мо

Name: Мо: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

loc · Cyrillic script

Meaning: MOD (“ministry of defence”), DOD (“department of defense”); abbreviation of министерства обороны (ministerstva oborony)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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.

rarermore common

RURussia≈1 in 3.5M(inferred from the name graph)
DZAlgeria≈1 in 462as Moh
IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.5Kas Moh

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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
: 3 (measured from records)
Sources: 167 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 3.5M (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

МоCyrillic

MohLatin

모희Hangul

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Moh in ID Indonesia, DZ Algeria, EG Egypt and 3 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)

Sources 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.

Where Мо is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
ID Indonesia	#76	≈110,000 est.	≈1 in 2.5K	listed	Moh	167
DZ Algeria	#18	≈93,000 est.	≈1 in 462	listed	Moh	29
EG Egypt	#641	≈15,000 est.	≈1 in 7.1K	—	Moh	61
SA Saudi Arabia	#734	≈6,500 est.	≈1 in 5.3K	—	Moh	32
MA Morocco	#720	≈6,200 est.	≈1 in 5.7K	—	Moh	27
KW Kuwait	#444	≈700 est.	≈1 in 4.3K	—	Moh	27
PL Poland	—	44as Moh	1 in 870K	44	—	1
RU Russia	—	≈41 est.	≈1 in 3.5M	—	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: 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Мо is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name39 spellings in the group
Also written Mo, Mơ, Mô, Meaux, Mỡ

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

Moh Yoon-sookb. 1910KRSouth Korean writer (1910–1990)
Timothy Mob. 1950GBnot in their usual namenovelist
Mo Yanb. 1955CNnot in their usual nameChinese novelist and screenwriter
Max Mokb. 1962CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and singer
Mo Ji-soob. 1969KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean short track speed skater
Karen Mokb. 1970CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress and singer-songwriter
Siala-Mou Siligab. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican Samoan martial arts fighter (born 1970)
Monica Mokb. 1981CNnot in their usual nameactress
Mo Tae-bumb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean speed skater
Mo Hong-jinKRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Мо under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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).
In which country does Мо have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Moh in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
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.

What do you want to know about Мо?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%BC%D0%BE

The 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 2026-10-10 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 2026-10-10.

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