Mò

given name · Latin script

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

Mò is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: certain herbaceous plants.

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 66K(inferred from the name graph)
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 118K
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 146K

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.

United States (measured from records)

3,396 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
275 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MòLatin(measured from records)
מוHebrew(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mo in MA Morocco, EG Egypt, DZ Algeria and 1 more and מו 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)

certain herbaceous plants

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mò 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 Mò is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,3961 in 98K12Kמו275
EG Egypt≈880 est.≈1 in 118K—Mo83
DZ Algeria≈650 est.≈1 in 66K—Mo15
MA Morocco≈240 est.≈1 in 146K—Mo25
TN Tunisia≈230 est.≈1 in 52K—Mo13
SE Sweden2081 in 49K391—19
DK Denmark551 in 107K311—2

3,396 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling mo. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Mò is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname42 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Luxembourgish

    Also written Mo, Moe, Mö, Mo', M-O

  • a separate name30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Italy, Russia

    Also written Mo, Mộ, Mơ, Mỗ, Mô

  • French given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Algeria, Morocco

    Also written Mo, Mô, Mö, Mo', M-O

11 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)

Mò 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 万

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

  • In Scottish Gaelic, comparative degree of mòr

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

  • In Haitian Creole, death

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

  • In bnt-pro, shave

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In ula, water

    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)

  • Zhou Mob. 1469Ming dynasty person CBDB = 201483
  • Zhang Mob. 1989CACanadian table tennis player
  • Gu MoMing dynasty person CBDB = 324861
  • Xue MoTang dynasty person CBDB = 140636
  • Yao MoMing dynasty person CBDB = 236915
  • Li MoMing dynasty person CBDB = 307158
  • He MoMing dynasty person CBDB = 213308
  • Ye MoSong dynasty person CBDB=23277
  • Li MoSong dynasty person CBDB = 97220

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mò under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mò mean, and where does it come from?
certain herbaceous plants Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Mò a male or female name?
Mò is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Mò have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Mò, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled מו.
Where is Mò most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mò is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 49 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mò?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,396 people named Mò in 2020, about 1 in 98 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, “Mò”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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