Mú
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mu˨˦/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 839as মো(inferred from the name graph)
- OMOman≈1 in 1.4Kas মো
- CNChina≈1 in 12Kas Mo
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 Mú 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 named মো, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mu in OM Oman, AE United Arab Emirates, SA Saudi Arabia and 1 more, Mo in US United States, CN China, MY Malaysia and মো in BD Bangladesh.
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 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mú 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #34 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 839 | — | মো | 55 |
| CN China | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Mo | 127 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Mu | 27 |
| US United States | — | 16,450as Ma | 1 in 20K | 38K | Mo | 243 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Mu | 34 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Mu | 6 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Mu | 27 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Mo | 36 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Mú 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 Hungarian, moo (the characteristic sound made by a cow)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 恈
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yrl, brother (of a man)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tyz, a group of people
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbj, child (one's)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, drink
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Mú?
- A machine transcription gives /mu˨˦/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does Mú have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 194 thousand people named মো in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,450 people named Ma in 2020, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Mú compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Mú is the 34th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mú?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%BAThe 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, “Mú” — the 34th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.