Munning
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mənɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Munning is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Essex, London, and. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Munding (Old English *Munding, a derivative of names in Mund- or -mund).
- LSLesotho≈1 in 135K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 494K
- DEGermany≈1 in 727K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 135K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lesotho, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Münning in DE Germany.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Essex, London, and. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Munding (Old English *Munding, a derivative of names in Mund- or -mund).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Munning 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 727K | — | Münning | 24 |
| US United States | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | listed | Munning | 75 |
| IN India | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 20M | 3 | Munning | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 35 | 1 in 494K | 35 | Munning | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Munning | 18 |
| LS Lesotho | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Munning | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Munning | 4 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)
Munning is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, mouth (of a river, fjord etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, mouth (as above)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 35 | #37,872 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Munning mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Essex, London, and. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Munding (Old English *Munding, a derivative of names in Mund- or -mund). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Munning?
- A machine transcription gives /mənɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Munning have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people named Munning in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled münning.
- How common is the name Munning?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 35 people named Munning in 2007, about 1 in 494 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/munningThe 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, “Munning”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.