M-R
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
M-R is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 89(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.4K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.5K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- #112 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 89 (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, 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 Mr in NG Nigeria, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia and 4 more.
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)HRA EA. (BKM): Be 至 于 西夏 氏 。 是 以 国名 为 氏 , 见 《 姓 氏 考 略 》 (60,63). PH2F, FES BR PGE BAAR ,西夏 古国 地 处 在 今 甘肃 河西 走廊 。 西 特 合 至 Xitehe[i [ 英文 Xiteheli.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)M-R 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #7 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 89 | — | Mr | 19 |
| PK Pakistan | #260 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Mr | 66 |
| GB United Kingdom | #443 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Mr | 230 |
| NG Nigeria | #10 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Mr | 67 |
| MY Malaysia | #200 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Mr | 57 |
| BE Belgium | #783 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Mr | 39 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | Mr | 39 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)M-R 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 egy, Alternative transliteration of jmj-r (“overseer”).
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is M-R a male or female name?
- M-R is a female 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 M-R have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 257 thousand people named M-R in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mr.
- How common is the name M-R?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9 people named M-R, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is M-R compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, M-R is the 7th most common given name of 14,062 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-rThe 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, “M-R” — the 7th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.