Mý
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mý is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson, Little My, named for my (“mu, the Greek letter μ”), because she was the smallest thing that there is.
- SESweden1 in 900(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 5.4K
- FIFinland1 in 7.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 900 (inferred from the name graph)
11,331 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled My in SE Sweden, US United States, TN Tunisia and Mÿ in DZ Algeria.
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)A character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson, Little My, named for my (“mu, the Greek letter μ”), because she was the smallest thing that there is.
Cited for this meaning 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 33 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mý 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 11,331 | 1 in 900 | 11K | My | 10 |
| US United States | — | 8,159 | 1 in 41K | 6.5K | My | 57 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Mÿ | 9 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,082 | 1 in 5.4K | 1.1K | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 737 | 1 in 7.6K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 379 | 1 in 14K | 912 | — | 1 |
| TN Tunisia | #935 | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 471K | — | My | 7 |
| IS Iceland | — | 10 | 1 in 35K | 10 | — | — |
11,331 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Mý is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, midge, blackfly, midget, gnat
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mý mean, and where does it come from?
- A character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson, Little My, named for my (“mu, the Greek letter μ”), because she was the smallest thing that there is. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Mý a male or female name?
- Mý is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mý have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Mý, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled my.
- Where is Mý most common?
- Mý is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 900 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mý?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 11,331 people named Mý, about 1 in 900 residents.
- How common is Mý compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Mý is the 935th most common given name of 13,277 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%BDThe 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, “Mý” — the 935th most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.