Mòòn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mòòn is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from *meh₁- (“.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 4.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5.5K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 5.7K
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 Mòòn 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 493 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
45,528 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Moon in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia 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)- Middle Englishmone(measured from records)
- Old Englishmōna“moon”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*mānō(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*mēnô“moon”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*mḗh₁n̥s“moon“moon, month”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European root*meh₁-“to measure”(measured from records)
From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”). cognates and doublets Cognate with Scots mone, mune, muin (“moon”), North Frisian muun (“moon”), West Frisian moanne (“moon”), Dutch maan (“moon”), German Mond (“moon”), Danish måne (“moon”), Norwegian Bokmål måne (“moon”), Norwegian Nynorsk måne (“moon”), Swedish måne (“moon”), Icelandic máni (“moon”), Latin mēnsis (“month”). See also month, a related term within Indo-European.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mòòn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #701 | 45,528 | 1 in 7.3K | 46K | Moon | 493 |
| GB United Kingdom | #732 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Moon | 241 |
| CA Canada | #748 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 1 | Moon | 169 |
| AU Australia | #563 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 1 | Moon | 182 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Moon | 55 |
| SG Singapore | #408 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Moon | 58 |
| NZ New Zealand | #592 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Moon | 87 |
45,528 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mòòn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from *meh₁- (“… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Mòòn a male or female name?
- Mòòn is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mòòn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named Mòòn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moon.
- How common is the name Mòòn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 45,528 people named Mòòn in 2010, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Mòòn compared with other names?
- In the United States, Mòòn is the 701st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%B2%C3%B2nThe 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, “Mòòn” — the 701st most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.