Muthiah

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/muθiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Muthiah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 2M
  • LKSri Lanka≈1 in 31K

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.

Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,400 people, est.

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Muthiah 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.

Where Muthiah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia≈2,400 est.≈1 in 13K—Muthiah29
LK Sri Lanka≈750 est.≈1 in 31K—Muthiah10
US United States1651 in 2M246Muthiah128
SG Singapore≈140 est.≈1 in 45K—Muthiah27
CA Canada≈70 est.≈1 in 538K—Muthiah24
NO Norway341 in 161K34—5
CH Switzerland311 in 271K31Muthiah6

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Muthiah is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Malay surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, United States

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Muthi'Ah, Muthi’ah, 'Muthiah, Muthiah'

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

Formalआदरणीया श्रीमती Muthiah जी,Respected Muthiah ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Muthiah जी,Hi Muthiah, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Muthiah?
A machine transcription gives /muθiə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Muthiah have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Muthiah in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muthiah.
How common is the name Muthiah?
In the United States, the national register counted 165 people named Muthiah in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.

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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, “Muthiah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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