Mund
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from OE *Munda; first attested Nicholas Mund 1275 RH (Lancashire)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mʊnd/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Mund is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 75Kfew records
- EEEstonia≈1 in 120K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)short form from a Rufname with mund- 'protection' or from Sigismund
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mund is read
(measured from records)Mund is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English45%
from OE *Munda; first attested Nicholas Mund 1275 RH (Lancashire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
from an unattested Old English personal name, Munda, a short form of some compound name formed with mund ‘protection’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- German22%
short form from a Rufname with mund- 'protection' or from Sigismund
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
trait surname: mouth; bearer count not printed on this line
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
occupation: protector/guardian, spokesman
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
from Mund; also as a base for compounds.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Hindi17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mund in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mund 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 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Mund | 117 |
| US United States | 1,194 | 1 in 279K | 1.3K | Mund | 227 |
| IN India | 861 | 1 in 1.5M | 861 | Mund | 30 |
| BR Brazil | 337 | 1 in 628K | 337 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Mund | 7 |
| SG Singapore | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Mund | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Mund | 15 |
| PS Palestine | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Mund | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 17 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the ee-stat-nimed 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pros Mundb. 1550NODanish admiral
- Johann Samuel Mundb. 1724DEGerman artist, 1724-1794
- Richard Mundb. 1885DEGerman painter (1885-1968)
- Arthur Mundb. 1899DEGerman diver
- Günther Mundb. 1934DEChilean diver (1934–2011)
- Uwe Mundb. 1941ATAustrian conductor
- Uwe Mundb. 1962DEGerman rower
- Fabian Mundb. 1980DEGerman biathlete
- Eike Mundb. 1988DEGerman association football player
- Cara Mundb. 1994USAmerican beauty pageant winner, lawyer, Congressional candidate
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)Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Mund mean?
- In English, from OE *Munda; first attested Nicholas Mund 1275 RH (Lancashire)
- Where does the name Mund come from?
- short form from a Rufname with mund- 'protection' or from Sigismund Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Mund?
- It depends on the language: in English /mʊnd/ (Wiktionary); in German /mʊnt/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Mund have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Mund in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mund.
- How common is the name Mund?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,194 people named Mund in 2010, about 1 in 279 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/mundThe 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, “Mund”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.