Mooney
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Maonaigh, ‘descendant of Maonach’, a personal name derived from maoineach ‘rich’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Mooney is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name.
- INIndia≈1 in 800as Manju(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 9.3Kfew recordsas Manju
- KWKuwait≈1 in 11Kas Manju
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 Mooney itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #650 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 477 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 797 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800,000 named Manju, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est., as Manju
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Manju in IN India, KW Kuwait, SA Saudi Arabia and 2 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)Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Maonaigh, ‘descendant of Maonach’, a personal name derived from maoineach ‘rich’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mooney 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #58 | ≈1,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 797 | 23K | Manju | 217 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Manju | 23 |
| US United States | — | 2,323as Manju | 1 in 143K | 34K | Mooney | 477 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #736 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Manju | 53 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Mooney | 31 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Manju | 20 |
| KW Kuwait | #558 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Manju | 8 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Mooney is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, From Irish Gaelic Maonaigh; see Meaney.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)- James Mooneyb. 1861USAmerican ethnographer (1861–1921)
- Jim Mooneyb. 1919USAmerican comic book artist (1919-2008)
- Paul Mooneyb. 1941USAmerican comedian, writer, social critic, television and film actor
- Debra Mooneyb. 1947USAmerican actress
- Pat Mooneyb. 1947CACanadian environmentalist
- Alex X. Mooneyb. 1971USAmerican politician (born 1971)
- Nate Mooneyb. 1972USAmerican actor
- Peter Mooneyb. 1983CACanadian actor
- Kyle Mooneyb. 1984USAmerican comedian and writer
- Danny Mooneyb. 1985USAmerican actor
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 34K | #1,033 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 33K | #968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 32K | #1,082 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mooney mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Maonaigh, ‘descendant of Maonach’, a personal name derived from maoineach ‘rich’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mooney have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 million people named Manju in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mooney?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,323 people named Manju in 2020, about 1 in 143 thousand residents.
- How common is Mooney compared with other names?
- In India, Mooney is the 58th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mooneyThe 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, “Mooney” — the 58th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.