Mumu
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məmu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mumu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.5Kas Mim(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 35Kas Ming
- AUAustralia≈1 in 63Kas Mim
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 Mumu 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named Mim, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, 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 Mim in US United States, BD Bangladesh, GB United Kingdom and 4 more and Ming in CN China.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mumu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #268 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Mim | 68 |
| CN China | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Ming | 8 |
| US United States | — | 9,534as Ming | 1 in 35K | 6.1K | Mim | 167 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 92K | 3 | Mim | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Mim | 71 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Mim | 8 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 2 | Mim | 78 |
| SE Sweden | — | 374as Ming | 1 in 27K | 374 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 2 | Mim | 5 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Mumu 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 ssf, Formosan blind mole: Talpa micrura insularis (Swinhoe); a dark grayish to black purblind mammal with projecting snout, strong forelimbs, and atrophied rear limbs that forages for worms by burrowing in the ground with its strong forelimbs
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ssf, the Formosan blind mole: Talpa micrura insularis (Swinhoe)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In map-pro, Formosan blind mole: Talpa micrura insularis (Swinhoe)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In English, In Papua New Guinea, a feast where a pig is cooked.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, Munster (the southernmost province of Ireland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tlv, rinse the mouth before eating
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Tian Mumub. 2010CNChinese Go player
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Mumu?
- A machine transcription gives /məmu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Mumu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Mim in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mumu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,534 people named Ming in 2020, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Mumu compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Mumu is the 268th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mumu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mumuThe 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, “Mumu” — the 268th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.