Money

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Money, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Cash
• Berlin
• Denver
• One
• Penny

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Money is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Mo'Ney

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Mo-Ney

59 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.

Money 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.

• English; from Middle English money(e) ‘money’ (Old French moneie, Latin moneta), hence a nickname for a rich man or a metonymic occupational name for a moneyer. Compare Minter.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Maonaigh (see Meaney).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Irish, A variant of Mooney in north-east Ulster

  as a name·The Surnames of Ireland

• In ibb, delicacies, little Ad164.13 bits of luxury food

  as a word·Ibibio Dictionary. Final Report

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.

• John Moneyb. 1921USNew Zealand-US psychologist and sexologist (1921–2006)
• Richard Moneyb. 1955GBEnglish football player and manager (born 1955)
• Constance Moneyb. 1956USAmerican pornographic actress

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).

27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Money mean, and where does it come from?

‘maker of coins, moneyer’, or a nickname for a rich person; also from Irish Gaelic Ó Maonaigh Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

What are other forms of the name Money?

In the etymology graph, Monie is a form of the same name in other languages.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Money?

In the United States, the national register counted about 6.4 thousand people named Money, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled money. After it come Nigeria, United Kingdom, Côte d’Ivoire and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Money?

In the United States, the national register counted 6,420 people named Money in 2010, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.