Momin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic mu ’min ‘believer (in Islam)’, ‘pious person’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Momin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 40,223 people, counted by Instate. Momin is also written 모민 in Korean (Hangul), Момин in Cyrillic and โมมิล in Thai.
- INIndia1 in 33K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 40Kfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 92Kfew records
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 Momin 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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
40,223 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Momin in other scripts: Korean (Hangul), Cyrillic and Thai
(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)from a personal name based on Arabic mu ’min ‘believer (in Islam)’, ‘pious person’. Al-Mu’min ‘the Believer’ is one of the names of Allah (Qur’an 59:23). It is also the title of the 40th sura of the Qur’an.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Momin is found
(measured from records)Momin 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 | #659 | 40,223 | 1 in 33K | 40K | Momin | 128 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 40K | listed | Momin | 45 |
| US United States | — | 2,935 | 1 in 113K | 3.8K | Momin | 221 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Momin | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Momin | 19 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Momin | 10 |
40,223 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Abdul Momin of Bruneib. 1788BNSultan of Brunei (1788-1885)
- Shamim M. Mominb. 1973USAmerican curator (born 1973)
- Huzwaney Mominb. 2006THbadminton player
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)48 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Momin come from?
- from a personal name based on Arabic mu ’min ‘believer (in Islam)’, ‘pious person’. Al-Mu’min ‘the Believer’ is one of the names of Allah (Qur’an 59:23). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Momin mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic mu ’min ‘believer (in Islam)’, ‘pious person’.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Momin?
- In India, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Momin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled momin. After it come Pakistan, United States, United Arab Emirates and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Momin?
- In India, the national register counted 40,223 people named Momin, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Momin compared with other names?
- In India, Momin is the 659th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames 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/mominThe 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, “Momin” — ranked 372nd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.