Muñk
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Muñk is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a German (Münk), Scandinavian/North Germanic (mainly Danish), and Dutch surname, all from the noun Mönch (“monk”). Compare Munck.
- DEGermany≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 172K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 264 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
3,510 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Munk in US United States, DK Denmark, DE Germany 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)
* As a German (Münk), Scandinavian/North Germanic (mainly Danish), and Dutch surname, all from the noun Mönch (“monk”). Compare Munck. * Also as a German surname, short form of the medieval name Dominicus. See Dominick. * Also as a German surname, from the place Münk in Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate. The placename is attested as early as 1583 (Middle High German Monnike) and itself could be related to the word for monk. * As an English surname, variant of Monk. * As a Jewish surname, from M(o)unka, the Czech pet form of Solomon.
Sources 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 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muñk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | — | 3,510 | 1 in 1.7K | 3.5K | Munk | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | listed | Munk | 89 |
| US United States | — | 1,938 | 1 in 172K | 1.9K | Munk | 264 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Munk | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Munk | 71 |
| SE Sweden | — | 180 | 1 in 57K | 180 | Munk | 26 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #343 | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Munk | 1 |
3,510 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 Muñk mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a German (Münk), Scandinavian/North Germanic (mainly Danish), and Dutch surname, all from the noun Mönch (“monk”). Compare Munck. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Muñk a male or female name?
- Muñk is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Muñk have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Muñk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled munk.
- Where is Muñk most common?
- Muñk is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Muñk?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 3,510 people named Muñk, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Muñk compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Muñk is the 343rd most common surname of 3,662 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mu%C3%B1kThe 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, “Muñk” — the 343rd most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.