Maung

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maung is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common surname. Recorded meaning: unexplained.

rarermore common
  • MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 373(inferred from the name graph)
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 25K
  • USUnited States1 in 325K

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.

Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)

≈150,000 people, est.

Sources
175 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 373 (inferred from the name graph)

Myanmar (Burma), est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

unexplained.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maung 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.

Where Maung is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MM Myanmar (Burma)#21≈150,000 est.≈1 in 373listedMaung106
MY Malaysia#687≈1,300 est.≈1 in 25K—Maung20
US United States—1,0231 in 325K1.6KMaung175
SG Singapore—≈590 est.≈1 in 10K—Maung44
CA Canada—≈150 est.≈1 in 254K—Maung30
FI Finland—681 in 82K68—1
NO Norway—601 in 91K60—7

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 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maung is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname160 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, South Africa, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Thai, English, Swahili

    Also written Moeng, Ming, Meng, Mueng, หมิง

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • Bangla surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, Malaysia

    Also written Mãûñg

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Maung is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, An Iwaidjan Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Croker and Melville Islands off the north coast of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Malay, synonym of harimau

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Sundanese, tiger

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In wuu, Dream

    as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect

  • In wuu, Busy

    as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect

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)

1900192019401960Win Maung, b. 1916Min Yu Wai, b. 1928Cynthia Maung, b. 1959

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 20 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Maung
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.6K#17,149
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,466
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000500#41,130
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—68#17,448
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—60#23,128
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Maung mean, and where does it come from?
unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Maung have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 152 thousand people named Maung in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maung.
How common is the name Maung?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,023 people named Maung in 2010, about 1 in 325 thousand residents.
How common is Maung compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Maung is the 21st most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Maung” — the 21st most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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