Münir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Münir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Nurlandıran, ışık veren, parlak.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 13K
- RURussia≈1 in 51Kas Мунир
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 Münir 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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Munir in SY Syria, US United States, Мунир in RU Russia and Mounir in ES Spain.
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)
Nurlandıran, ışık veren, parlak.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Münir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Münir | 50 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,030as Mounir | 1 in 17K | 3K | Mounir | 9 |
| RU Russia | #997 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 51K | #306 | Мунир | 110 |
| SY Syria | #849 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Munir | 6 |
| US United States | — | 1,476 | 1 in 225K | 1.5K | Munir | 60 |
| SE Sweden | — | 519 | 1 in 20K | 519 | Münir | 9 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 157as Мунир | 1 in 14K | 157 | — | 1 |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Münir Ertegünb. 1883TRTurkish diplomat (1883–1944)
- Münir Nurettin Selçukb. 1900TRTurkish composer and musician (1900–1981)
- Münir Özkulb. 1925TRTurkish actor (1925–2018)
- Münir Akçab. 1951TRTurkish actor (1951–2016)
- Münir Göleb. 1961TRTurkish photographer (born 1961)
- Münir Nurettin Bekenb. 1964TRTurkish ethnomusicologist; Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
- Münir Karaloğlub. 1964TRTurkish statesperson (born 1964)
- Münir Recep Aktaşb. 1989TRTurkish athlete (born 1989)
- Münir Can Cindorukb. 1990TRTurkish actor (born 1990)
- Levent Mercanb. 2000DEnot in their usual nameTurkish-German association football player (born 2000)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #25,298 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 18 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Münir mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nurlandıran, ışık veren, parlak.
- Is Münir a male or female name?
- Münir 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 Münir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Münir in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled münir.
- How common is the name Münir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,476 people named Münir in 2020, about 1 in 225 thousand residents.
- How common is Münir compared with other names?
- In Syria, Münir is the 849th most common given name of 109,151 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/m%C3%BCnirThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Münir” — the 849th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.