Munda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a short form of the personal name Rajmund (see Raymond), formed with the suffix -a
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɐndə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Munda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 3.8K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 9.7K
- USUnited States1 in 35Kas Mundy
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 Munda 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #966 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
346,177 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mandi in PK Pakistan and Mandee in US United States.
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)
from a short form of the personal name Rajmund (see Raymond), formed with the suffix -a.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Munda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #155 | 346,177 | 1 in 3.8K | 346K | Munda | 126 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 1 | Mandi | 13 |
| ZM Zambia | #889 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 9 | Munda | 25 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Munda | 37 |
| US United States | — | 9,439as Mundy | 1 in 35K | 9.4K | Mandee | 202 |
| NP Nepal | — | 3,589 | 1 in 8.4K | 3.6K | — | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 573 | 1 in 3.7K | 573 | Munda | 6 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 396 | — | — |
346,177 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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)
Munda 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.
nickname from the dialect word munda (of uncertain origin), used as a name for a bull.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
bald; blunt; head; thinker.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ours.
as a nameThe African book of names
In lua, loc. word{made up of mu and the insep. nda), abdomen, belly, the inside of, the interior, stomach, womb. §423 {2){h). -a m., internal, inward, fika m., or di ne m. mufike, to be annoyed, be vexed, be worried, be aggravated, be enraged, be provoked, flkixa m., to annoy, vex, worr}% aggravate, anger, enrage, exasperate, displease, irritate, provoke, tease, tantalize, torment, trouble.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
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)
- Birsa Mundab. 1875INIndian tribal freedom fighter (1875–1900)
- Ivka Marija Mundab. 1927SIbotanist
- Ivan Mundab. 1931SISlovenian university teacher
- Tulasi Mundab. 1947INactivist and educator from Odisha, India
- Arjun Mundab. 1968INIndian politician
- Miha Mundab. 1970SIresearcher
- Emilio Mundab. 1982ITItalian composer
- Mihael MundaSIresearcher
- Alenka MundaSIresearcher
- Jurij MundaSIresearcher
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 40 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 346K | #70 |
| NP Nepal | NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only | 2021 | 3.6K | #101 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2K | #758 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 573 | #473 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 391 | #56,436 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 358 | #54,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 320 | #62,531 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Munda mean, and where does it come from?
- from a short form of the personal name Rajmund (see Raymond), formed with the suffix -a. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Munda?
- A machine transcription gives /mɐndə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Munda have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 346 thousand people named Munda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled munda.
- Where is Munda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Munda is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 3.7 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Munda?
- In India, the national register counted 346,177 people named Munda, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Munda compared with other names?
- In India, Munda is the 155th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mundaThe 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, “Munda” — the 155th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.