Mude
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/muːd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mude is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 342K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 412K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
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 Mude 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 342K (inferred from the name graph)
3,220 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Müde in DE Germany and Muede in PH Philippines.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mude 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 3,220 | 1 in 412K | 3.2K | Mude | 27 |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Mude | 14 |
| DE Germany | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | — | Müde | 16 |
| PH Philippines | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Muede | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
3,220 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Mude is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tut-pro, soon, finally
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Asturian, first/third-person singular present subjunctive of mudar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mch, native-style bench or seat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of mudar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tut-pro, скоро, наконец
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Latvian, solījums, lozungs, sauklis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5.6K | #492 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 3.2K | #2,163 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 77 | #5,730 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 26 | #12,357 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #45,942 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #125,803 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #50,420 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #66,614 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Mude?
- A machine transcription gives /muːd/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Mude have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Mude, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mude.
- Where is Mude most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mude is densest in Norway — about 1 in 342 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mude?
- In India, the national register counted 3,220 people named Mude, about 1 in 412 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mudeThe 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, “Mude”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.