My
given name · Latin script
Meaning: shortened form of OFr ami 'friend'; first attested John le My 1332 SRSt
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
My is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 270(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 900
- DKDenmark1 in 5.4K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 268 (inferred from the name graph)
≈380,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)shortened form of OFr ami 'friend'; first attested John le My 1332 SRSt
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)My 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #34 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 268 | listed | My | 204 |
| SE Sweden | — | 11,331 | 1 in 900 | 11K | My | 19 |
| US United States | — | 8,159 | 1 in 41K | 6.5K | My | 157 |
| IN India | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 410K | — | My | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | My | 46 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,082 | 1 in 5.4K | 1.1K | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 737 | 1 in 7.6K | 1.1K | — | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 379 | 1 in 14K | 912 | My | 10 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)My 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 English, First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, mean disposition, (aftecta tion). “low crude mass’—a depraved person
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, humble surname is, (bé to find its way in as water does, to flow, to penetrate, to tinge, to soak, gradually, slowly. to advance, gradual progress. moderate liberalism, (gék-céng). to soak gradually. gradually, slowly. to grow gradually
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, father, as used in letters the father hands it down to his parental bodies. elders, (didng-budi). appendix, does the son contribution to our ‘father and mother, (séng-ching), both parents still living. district and prefectural magis
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, elder brother, (also for a great grandfather, very just. public affairs, main aspect of affairs, N. the high seas. one of the solar terms, january of great stature, (hdng-ma). wholly recovered, (from sickness). university, college
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)- Trương Mỹ Lanb. 1956VNVietnamese businesswoman
- My Skarsgårdb. 1956SESwedish physician
- Lisa Nilssonb. 1970SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer
- My Thordalb. 1973DKDanish film editor
- My Bodellb. 1973SESwedish actress
- Mỹ Tâmb. 1981VNVietnamese singer-songwriter
- Vũ Hoàng Myb. 1988VNVietnamese model
- Midub. 1989VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese actress and model
- Molly Sandénb. 1992SEnot in their usual nameSwedish female singer, born 1992
- My Larsenb. 1999DKDanish female curler
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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 399 | #55,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 304 | #65,244 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 267 | #68,782 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #52,803 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- In which country does My have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 377 thousand people named My in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled my.
- What does the name My mean, and where does it come from?
- shortened form of OFr ami 'friend'; first attested John le My 1332 SRSt Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is My a male or female name?
- My is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Finland (DVV), Denmark (Danmarks Statistik) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- What are other forms of the name My?
- In the etymology graph, Mary, Marie and Miriam are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Maria.
- How common is the name My?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 11,331 people named My, about 1 in 900 residents.
- How common is My compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, My is the 34th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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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, “My” — the 34th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.