Mûnir

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mûnir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘Luminous’, ‘bright’, ‘shining’. Feminine form: Munira. Mus‘ad 3 ‘Lucky’, ‘favoured by fortune’.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 20K(measured from records)
  • ALAlbania1 in 28K
  • SISlovenia1 in 33K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mûnir 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.

Spain (measured from records)

3,030 named Mounir

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MûnirLatin(measured from records)
ΜουνιρGreek(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mounir in US United States.

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)

‘Luminous’, ‘bright’, ‘shining’. Feminine form: Munira. Mus‘ad 3 ‘Lucky’, ‘favoured by fortune’.

Sources 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mûnir 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 Mûnir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain3,030as Mounir1 in 17K3K—2
US United States1,4761 in 225K1.5KMounir6
BR Brazil8071 in 262K863——
NL Netherlands792as Mounir1 in 22K792—2
SE Sweden5191 in 20K519——
AL Albania1111 in 28K111——
SI Slovenia641 in 33K64——

3,030 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SURS — resident population given names. 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)

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

  • Hindi given name115 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Bangladesh

    Languages: Hindi, English, Urdu

    Also written Munir, Monir, Manir, মনির, Moniru

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mûnir 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 Mûnir mean, and where does it come from?
‘Luminous’, ‘bright’, ‘shining’. Feminine form: Munira. Mus‘ad 3 ‘Lucky’, ‘favoured by fortune’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
Is Mûnir a male or female name?
Mûnir is a male 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 Mûnir have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Mounir, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Mûnir most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mûnir is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mûnir?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,476 people named Mûnir in 2020, about 1 in 225 thousand residents.

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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, “Mûnir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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