Mr
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Abbreviation of Mister
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mʲista/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 89(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.4K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.5K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- #112 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 89 (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Abbreviation of Mister.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #7 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 89 | — | Mr | 19 |
| PK Pakistan | #260 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Mr | 66 |
| CN China | — | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Mr | 54 |
| GB United Kingdom | #443 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Mr | 230 |
| NG Nigeria | #10 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Mr | 67 |
| MY Malaysia | #200 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Mr | 57 |
| BE Belgium | #783 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Mr | 39 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | Mr | 39 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Mr 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 och, Bear, the clan name of the rulers of the state of Chu
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In Icelandic, initialism of Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík (“Reykjavik Junior College”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In egy, to be(come) physically ill or in pain, to be(come) sick or diseased, to ail, to ache (+ m or m-dj: with (an ailment) or in (a body part))
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Symbol for the megarayleigh, a unit of measurement of luminous flux, used to measure air glow.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Korean, initialism of Music Recorded (Music Record ed)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9 | #23,928 |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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 Mr mean, and where does it come from?
- Abbreviation of Mister. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mr?
- A machine transcription gives /mʲista/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Mr a male or female name?
- Mr is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 257 thousand people named Mr in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mr.
- How common is the name Mr?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9 people named Mr, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Mr compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Mr is the 7th most common given name of 14,062 given names 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/mrThe 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, “Mr” — the 7th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.