Marungu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of rungu
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marungu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- NANamibia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 75K
- KEKenya≈1 in 167K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈790 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
plural of rungu
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marungu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Marungu | 10 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Marungu | 6 |
| NA Namibia | #648 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | Marungu | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 918K | — | Marungu | 3 |
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: ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #12 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #15 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marungu mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of rungu Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Marungu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 786 people named Marungu in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marungu.
- How common is the name Marungu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 790 people in Tanzania have Marungu as their first surname, about 1 in 75 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Marungu compared with other names?
- In Namibia, Marungu is the 648th most common surname of 968 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Marungu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marunguThe 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, “Marungu” — the 648th most common surname in Namibia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.