Worldwide, ムトウ (ムトウ 
, Muto 
) is quite a rare unisex first name. The given name ムトウ is characteristic of Italy, where it is a very rare principally masculine, but very infrequently feminine name, Saudi Arabia, where it is a very rare masculine name, and Indonesia, where it is a very rare epicene name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is commonest in India, Indonesia, and China. Much less frequently, ムトウ is the last name as well as the forename.
ムトウ is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: MUTO , the "MUTO" is an acronym for "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism", Godzilla.