Muňoz
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Muňoz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the old personal name Muho.
- CLChile≈1 in 70(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 140
- ECEcuador1 in 169
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 Muňoz 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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- #177 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 488 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70 (inferred from the name graph)
≈370,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Muñoz in CL Chile, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 3 more and Munoz 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)patronymic from the old personal name Muho.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Muňoz is found
(measured from records)Muňoz 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 | #19 | ≈370,000 est. | ≈1 in 144 | 140 | Muñoz | 174 |
| ES Spain | #17 | 284,951 | 1 in 176 | 285K | Muñoz | 199 |
| CL Chile | #1 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 70 | — | Muñoz | 168 |
| US United States | #222 | 158,483 | 1 in 2.1K | 158K | Munoz | 488 |
| MX Mexico | #108 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 4.6K | Muñoz | 216 |
| EC Ecuador | #6 | 99,923 | 1 in 169 | 100K | Muñoz | 83 |
| CR Costa Rica | #48 | 28,450 | 1 in 179 | 28K | Muñoz | 77 |
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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Muňoz mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the old personal name Muho. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Muňoz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 368 thousand people named Muňoz in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muñoz. After it come Spain, Chile, United States and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Muňoz?
- In Spain, the national register counted 284,951 people named Muňoz, about 1 in 176 residents.
- How common is Muňoz compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Muňoz is the 19th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mu%C5%88ozThe 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, “Muňoz” — the 19th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.