Muz

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Muz is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: mue ; cage, loge, vivier.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 228K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CZCzechia1 in 563K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 906K

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 Muz 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.

Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)

≈140 people, est.

Sources
72 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 228K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MuezLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Muez in US United States, DE Germany, MY Malaysia.

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)

mue ; cage, loge, vivier

Sources 1

  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Muz 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.

Where Muz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia≈140 est.≈1 in 228K—Muez10
US United States≈120 est.≈1 in 2.9MlistedMuez72
DE Germany≈89 est.≈1 in 906K—Muez36
IN India≈88 est.≈1 in 15M1—7
ES Spain22as Muez1 in 2.3M22—4
CZ Czechia191 in 563K19—1
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3—2

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Muz is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Müz

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Muź

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Muż, Muž

  • Russian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh

    Also written Муж, Muzh, Муз, Muz︠h︡

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Müz

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Muz is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In tly, fly (insect)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In crh, banana

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Breton, mue ; cage, loge, vivier

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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)

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 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Muz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Muz mean, and where does it come from?
mue ; cage, loge, vivier Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
In which country does Muz have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 143 people named Muz in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muez.
How common is the name Muz?
In Czechia, the national register counted 19 people named Muz, about 1 in 563 thousand residents.

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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, “Muz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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