Muńos
surname · Latin script
Muńos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: probably a variant spelling of Munoz (see Munoz).
- COColombia≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 3.8K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 13Kfew records
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Munos in MX Mexico, US United States, EC Ecuador and Muños in CO Colombia, CL Chile, BO Bolivia.
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)probably a variant spelling of Munoz (see Munoz).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Muńos is found
(measured from records)Muńos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #662 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Muños | 35 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Muños | 29 |
| US United States | — | 3,610 | 1 in 92K | 3.6K | Munos | 153 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 27 | Munos | 49 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Muños | 13 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 2 | Munos | 10 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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 Muńos mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a variant spelling of Munoz (see Munoz). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Muńos?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Muńos in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muños. After it come Chile, United States, Mexico and Bolivia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Muńos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,610 people named Muńos in 2010, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
- How common is Muńos compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Muńos is the 662nd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mu%C5%84osThe 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, “Muńos” — the 662nd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.