Money
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘maker of coins, moneyer’, or a nickname for a rich person; also from Irish Gaelic Ó Maonaigh
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mʌni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Money is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 52K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 22K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
6,420 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘maker of coins, moneyer’, or a nickname for a rich person; also from Irish Gaelic Ó Maonaigh
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Money 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 6,420 | 1 in 52K | 6.4K | Money | 353 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Money | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Money | 154 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Money | 12 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 145 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Money | 36 |
| EE Estonia | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 32K | listed | — | 1 |
6,420 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; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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)
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 nameDictionary of American Family Names
Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Maonaigh (see Meaney).
as a nameDictionary 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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, A variant of Mooney in north-east Ulster
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In ibb, delicacies, little Ad164.13 bits of luxury food
as a wordIbibio 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hernando Moneyb. 1839USAmerican politician (1839-1912)
- Arthur Wigram Moneyb. 1866GBBritish major-general
- John Moneyb. 1921USNew Zealand-US psychologist and sexologist (1921–2006)
- Ernle Moneyb. 1931GBBritish politician
- Zoot Moneyb. 1942GBBritish vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader (1942–2024)
- Don Moneyb. 1947USAmerican baseball player
- Richard Moneyb. 1955GBEnglish football player and manager (born 1955)
- Eric Moneyb. 1955USAmerican basketball player
- Constance Moneyb. 1956USAmerican pornographic actress
- Sophia Money-Couttsb. 1985GB(born 1985)
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 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.4K | #5,421 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.3K | #5,374 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.3K | #5,143 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 145 | #2,797 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 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].
- In which country does Money have the most bearers?
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Money?
- A machine transcription gives /mʌni/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Money?
- In the etymology graph, Monie is a form of the same name in other languages.
- 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.
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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, “Money”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.