Mon
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from the Marian name Mare de Deu del Mon, from Girona province
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mon is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 2M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 46K
- UYUruguay1 in 53K
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 Mon 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
45,528 named Moon, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 the Marian name Mare de Deu del Mon, from Girona province. This name is very common in northern Catalonia.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mon 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.
45,528 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Mon 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, habitational name from Mon in Asturies, or from El Mon in Uesca, Aragon.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, variant of MuNN, Mann, or possibly Moon.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, probably a variant of Mann.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, variant of Wan 1.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Russian, Mon. 12th Century.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Alejandro Pidal y Monb. 1846ESSpanish politician, art collector and writer (1846–1913)
- Elizabeth Moonb. 1945USnot in their usual nameAmerican fiction writer (born 1945)
- Keith Moonb. 1946GBnot in their usual nameEnglish rock musician, drummer of The Who (1946–1978)
- Alan R. Moonb. 1951GBnot in their usual nameBritish board game designer
- Warren Moonb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican gridiron football player (born 1956)
- Guy Moonb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer (1962–2026)
- Jamario Moonb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1980)
- Willy Moonb. 1989NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand musician
- Katie Nageotteb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican pole vaulter
- David MoonUSnot in their usual nameAmerican computer scientist and programmer
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)
Attested in 45 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15K | #55 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,478 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,717 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.1K | #4,106 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.1K | #4,106 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 951 | #9,726 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 778 | #28,790 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 655 | #7,507 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 64 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 61 | #19,168 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Mon come from?
- from the Marian name Mare de Deu del Mon, from Girona province. This name is very common in northern Catalonia. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mon?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑn/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
- What does the name Mon mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Marian name Mare de Deu del Mon, from Girona province.
- In which country does Mon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named Moon, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mon is densest in Spain — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mon?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,089 people named Mon, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monThe 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, “Mon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.