Muñoz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Muñoz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common surname.
- CLChile≈1 in 84(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 169
- ESSpain1 in 176
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #177 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 488 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 84 (inferred from the name graph)
284,951 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Munoz in US United States.
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)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muñoz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #17 | 284,951 | 1 in 176 | 285K | Muñoz | 199 |
| CO Colombia | #19 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 182 | 140 | Muñoz | 174 |
| CL Chile | #1 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 84 | — | Muñoz | 168 |
| US United States | #222 | 158,483 | 1 in 2.1K | 158K | Munoz | 488 |
| AR Argentina | #56 | 114,671 | 1 in 397 | 115K | Muñoz | 107 |
| EC Ecuador | #6 | 99,923 | 1 in 169 | 100K | Muñoz | 83 |
| CR Costa Rica | #48 | 28,450 | 1 in 179 | 28K | Muñoz | 77 |
284,951 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Muñoz 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.
In Filipino, Muñoz (a city in Nueva Ecija, Philippines)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Miguel Muñozb. 1922ESSpanish association football player and manager (1922–1990)
- Pilar Bardemb. 1939ESnot in their usual nameSpanish film and television actress (1939–2021)
- José Luis Garcib. 1944ESnot in their usual nameSpanish film director
- Amparo Muñozb. 1954ESSpanish actress and model, Miss Universe 1974 winner
- Víctor Muñozb. 1957ESSpanish footballer (born 1957)
- Adriana Ozoresb. 1959ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress (born 1959)
- Francisco Javier Muñoz Llompartb. 1980ESSpanish footballer
- Claudio Bravob. 1983CLnot in their usual nameChilean association football player
- Daniel Parejob. 1989ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Nicole Muñozb. 1994CACanadian actress
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Muñoz mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Muñoz have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 285 thousand people named Muñoz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muñoz.
- How common is the name Muñoz?
- In Spain, the national register counted 284,951 people named Muñoz, about 1 in 176 residents.
- How common is Muñoz compared with other names?
- In Spain, Muñoz is the 17th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mu%C3%B1ozThe 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, “Muñoz” — the 17th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.