Munira
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: bright, brilliant, shedding light, radiant, luminous, shining; feminine of Munir
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mjunɪɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Munira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uzbekistan than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 64th most common given name.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 724(inferred from the name graph)
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 1K
- USUnited States1 in 201K
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 Munira 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.
- Uzbekistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 724 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Muneera in KW Kuwait, QA Qatar, BH Bahrain, Мунира in UZ Uzbekistan, TJ Tajikistan, Munirah in SA Saudi Arabia and Monira in BD Bangladesh.
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)
bright, brilliant, shedding light, radiant, luminous, shining; feminine of Munir
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Munira is read(measured from records)
Munira 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.
- Hindi21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Munira in Hindi.
- English16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Munira in English.
- Arabic13%
bright, brilliant, shedding light, radiant, luminous, shining; feminine of Munir
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
bright, brilliant, radiant, luminous; fem
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
luminous; bright
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
brilliant
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Portuguese7.7%
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of munir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Munira in Swahili.
- Turkish5.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Munira in Turkish.
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)
Munira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UZ Uzbekistan | #310 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 724 | listed | Мунира | 24 |
| BD Bangladesh | #274 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | listed | Monira | 54 |
| TZ Tanzania | #814 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Munira | 24 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #104 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Мунира | 12 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #347 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | listed | Munirah | 81 |
| US United States | — | 1,659 | 1 in 201K | 1.7K | Munira | 174 |
| KW Kuwait | #96 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Muneera | 53 |
| QA Qatar | #98 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Muneera | 40 |
| BH Bahrain | #64 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Muneera | 39 |
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; the uz-ismlarim register. 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)
Munira is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Radiant.
as a nameThe African book of names
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)
- Monira Elmahdiyyab. 1885EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian singer and actress (1885–1965)
- Munira Thabitb. 1902EGEgyptian journalist and writer
- منيرة سنبلb. 1939EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actress
- Munira Fakhrob. 1941BHBahraini academic and a candidate in Bahrain's 2006 general election for the opposition Waad
- Mounira M. Charradb. 1942TNnot in their usual nameFrench-Tunisian sociologist
- Mounira Chapoutotb. 1942TNnot in their usual nameTunisian academic and historian
- Mounira Bharb. 1955TNnot in their usual nameTunisian film director
- Mounira Hamdib. 1962TNnot in their usual nameTunisian singer (1962-2019)
- Munira Wilsonb. 1978GBBritish politician
- Munira Mirzab. 1978GBBritish political adviser
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 62 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,682 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 28 | — |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Munira?
- A machine transcription gives /mjunɪɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Munira mean, and where does it come from?
- bright, brilliant, shedding light, radiant, luminous, shining; feminine of Munir Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Munira a male or female name?
- Munira is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Munira?
- In the etymology graph, Münire is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Munira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Munira in Uzbekistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled мунира.
- How common is the name Munira?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,659 people named Munira in 2020, about 1 in 201 thousand residents.
- How common is Munira compared with other names?
- In Uzbekistan, Munira is the 310th most common given name of 68,060 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muniraThe 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, “Munira” — the 310th most common given name in Uzbekistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.