Muñi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Muñi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Hindu (Vania) name derived from Sanskrit muni ‘sage’, ‘hermit, in particular one who has taken a vow of silence’.
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 188K
- SESweden1 in 928K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
130 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Muni 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)
Hindu (Vania) name derived from Sanskrit muni ‘sage’, ‘hermit, in particular one who has taken a vow of silence’.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muñi 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 | 130 | 1 in 2.6M | 464 | Muni | 125 |
| BR Brazil | 36 | 1 in 5.9M | 250 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
130 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Muñi 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 iba, make a sound
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Muñi mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu (Vania) name derived from Sanskrit muni ‘sage’, ‘hermit, in particular one who has taken a vow of silence’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Muñi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 130 people named Muñi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muni.
- Where is Muñi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Muñi is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 188 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Muñi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 130 people named Muñi in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mu%C3%B1iThe 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, “Muñi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.