Muha
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Muha is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Slovene muha, Serbo-Croatian muha, Belarusian муха (muxa), Ukrainian муха (muxa), Czech moucha, Slovak mucha, or Polish mucha, all from Proto-Slavic *muxa (“fly”).
- SISlovenia1 in 13K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 96K
- UYUruguay1 in 188K
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
- 197 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
843 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
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)
- Slovenemuha(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*muxa“fly”(measured from records)
From Slovene muha, Serbo-Croatian muha, Belarusian муха (muxa), Ukrainian муха (muxa), Czech moucha, Slovak mucha, or Polish mucha, all from Proto-Slavic *muxa (“fly”).
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muha 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 | 843 | 1 in 395K | 843 | — | 197 |
| IT Italy | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 243K | 1 | — | 6 |
| SI Slovenia | 168 | 1 in 13K | 168 | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 446K | listed | — | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 622K | 1 | — | 22 |
| HR Croatia | 44 | 1 in 96K | 44 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 18 | 1 in 188K | 18 | — | — |
843 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; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Muha is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, Apheretic form of kumuha (infinitive): to take
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, fine powder, such as ground
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, alternative form of mūga
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, fly (insect)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-mly-pro, face
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pao, moon
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joe Muhab. 1921USAmerican football player (1921-1993)
- Helena Muhab. 1958SIresearcher
- Ivo Muhab. 1984SImathematical author
- Mojca MuhaSISlovenian lawyer
- Vinko MuhaSIresearcher
- Katarina Košmrlj MuhaSIresearcher
- Igor MuhaSIresearcher
- Robert MuhaSIresearcher
- Teja Petra MuhaSIresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 843 | #28,333 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 831 | #30,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 830 | #27,361 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 168 | #2,631 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 44 | #14,436 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 37 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 18 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Muha mean, and where does it come from?
- From Slovene muha, Serbo-Croatian muha, Belarusian муха (muxa), Ukrainian муха (muxa), Czech moucha, Slovak mucha, or Polish mucha, all from Proto-Slavic *muxa (“fly”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Muha have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 843 people named Muha, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Muha most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Muha is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Muha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 843 people named Muha in 2010, about 1 in 395 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muhaThe 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, “Muha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.