Mumby
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Mumby, Lincolnshire ('Mundi's settlement')
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈməmbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mumby is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- NZNew Zealand
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Mumby, Lincolnshire ('Mundi's settlement').
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Mumby is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, so named from the Old Norse personal name Mundi (see Monday 1) -h Old Norse byr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, so called from the ON personal name Mundi (see Monday i) + ON byr farm, settlement. Mumford see Mountford Mummen see Mommsen Vars.: Mulkerrin, Mulkern(s). Munaretti see Miller Mulholland Irish: Anglicized form of Gael. O Maolchalann ‘descendant of the devotee of (St) Calann' (see Callan).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, so called from the ON personal name Mundi (see Monday i) + ON fryr farm, settlement.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Keith Mumbyb. 1957GBEnglish rugby league footballer
- Peter Mumbyb. 1969GBEnglish footballer (born 1969)
- Lisa AllpressNZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand jockey
- Hannah S. Mumbyresearcher
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 519 | #41,886 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 514 | #40,139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 512 | #45,060 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Mumby mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Mumby, Lincolnshire ('Mundi's settlement'). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Mumby?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈməmbi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mumby have the most bearers?
- Mumby is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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, “Mumby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.