Munir
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: to provide, fit, equip (a machine, object etc. de with something)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mjunɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Munir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 20K
- USUnited States1 in 225K
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 Munir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 256 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390,000 named Monir, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Monir in BD Bangladesh, MA Morocco, QA Qatar and 1 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)
‘Luminous’, ‘bright’, ‘shining’. Feminine form: Munira. Mus‘ad 3 ‘Lucky’, ‘favoured by fortune’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Munir is read(measured from records)
Munir is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Munir in Hindi.
- Urdu18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Munir in Urdu.
- English14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Munir in English.
- Portuguese6.6%
to provide, fit, equip (a machine, object etc. de with something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Munir in Turkish.
- Arabic5.4%
brilliant; luminous
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
luminous; bright
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Munir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #25 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 415 | listed | Monir | 112 |
| PK Pakistan | #210 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | listed | Munir | 126 |
| AF Afghanistan | #512 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Munir | 24 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Munir | 46 |
| MA Morocco | #537 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Monir | 42 |
| US United States | — | 1,476 | 1 in 225K | 1.5K | Munir | 256 |
| QA Qatar | #166 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Monir | 19 |
| BH Bahrain | #55 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Monir | 8 |
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. 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)
Munir 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.
‘Luminous’, ‘bright’, ‘shining’. Feminine form: Munira. Mus‘ad 3 ‘Lucky’, ‘favoured by fortune’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
from a personal name based on Arabic murilr ‘bright’, ‘brilliant’, ‘radiant’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, Munir (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’strålande, upplyst’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Munir Bashirb. 1930IQIraqi musician and oud player (1930–1997)
- Munir Redfab. 1934IQIraqi fighter pilot who defected to Israel (1934–1998)
- Munir Darb. 1935PKPakistani field hockey player (1935–2011)
- Munir Nayfehb. 1945PSPalestinian-American physicist
- Munir Mangalb. 1950AFAfghanistani general and politician
- Munir Amarb. 1968ILIsraeli general
- Munir Shakirb. 1969PKMufti Munir Shakir’s is a Islamic and Religious Leader (1969-2025)
- Mounir El Hamdaouib. 1984NLnot in their usual nameMoroccan footballer (born 1984)
- Munir El Haddadib. 1995MAMoroccan association football player
- Munir Khairdinactor
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 80 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,413 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 41 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 25 | #9,413 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Munir come from?
- ‘Luminous’, ‘bright’, ‘shining’. Feminine form: Munira. Mus‘ad 3 ‘Lucky’, ‘favoured by fortune’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Munir?
- A machine transcription gives /mjunɪɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Munir mean?
- In Portuguese, to provide, fit, equip (a machine, object etc. de with something)
- Is Munir a male or female name?
- Munir is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Munir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 392 thousand people named Monir in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Munir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,476 people named Munir in 2020, about 1 in 225 thousand residents.
- How common is Munir compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Munir is the 25th most common given name of 29,323 given names 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/munirThe 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, “Munir” — the 25th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.