Mukha
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mukha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ukrainian Му́ха (Múxa), Belarusian Му́ха (Múxa), or Russian Му́ха (Múxa), respectively from Ukrainian муха (muxa), Belarusian муха (muxa), Russian муха (muxa), all meaning "fly", from Proto-Slavi.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 5.8Kas Муха(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 48Kas Муха
- COColombia≈1 in 1.1M
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 Mukha 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
23,911 named Mucha, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Муха in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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)
- UkrainianМу́хаMúxa(measured from records)
- Ukrainianмухаmuxa(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*muxa(measured from records)
From Ukrainian Му́ха (Múxa), Belarusian Му́ха (Múxa), or Russian Му́ха (Múxa), respectively from Ukrainian муха (muxa), Belarusian муха (muxa), Russian муха (muxa), all meaning "fly", from Proto-Slavic *muxa.
Sources 3
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mukha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 23,911as Mucha | 1 in 1.6K | 12K | — | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | #546 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Муха | 41 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Муха | 141 |
| US United States | — | 2,563as Mucha | 1 in 130K | 2.6K | Mukha | 33 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,775as Mucha | 1 in 6K | 1.8K | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 1,349as Mucha | 1 in 4K | 1.3K | — | — |
| BY Belarus | #457 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Муха | 25 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Mukha | 1 |
23,911 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
Mukha 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 Russian, "toadstool."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Му́ха (Múxa).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, mouth; face, countenance
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pi, mouth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, face
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)
- Trudi MakhayaZAnot in their usual nameSouth African economist, entrepreneur, and writer
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 381 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 381 | #8,541 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 327 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 327 | #10,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 133 | #132,523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 113 | #146,201 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Mukha mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ukrainian Му́ха (Múxa), Belarusian Му́ха (Múxa), or Russian Му́ха (Múxa), respectively from Ukrainian муха (muxa), Belarusian муха (muxa), Russian муха (muxa), all meaning "fly", from Proto-Slavi… Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Mukha?
- A machine transcription gives /məkə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Mukha have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Mucha, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mukha?
- In Poland, the national register counted 23,911 people named Mucha in 2026, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Mukha compared with other names?
- In Belarus, Mukha is the 457th most common surname of 80,255 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mukhaThe 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, “Mukha” — the 457th most common surname in Belarus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.