Munīr
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Munīr is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name. Recorded meaning: ‘Luminous’, ‘bright’, ‘shining’. Feminine form: Munira. Mus‘ad 3 ‘Lucky’, ‘favoured by fortune’. Munīr is also written মনির in Bengali and 무니르 in Korean (Hangul).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 4.5Kfew records
- SYSyria≈1 in 14K
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 Munīr 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 256 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 named Monir, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Munīr in other scripts: Bengali and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled Munir in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States and 2 more and Monir in BD Bangladesh, QA Qatar, BH Bahrain.
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)‘Luminous’, ‘bright’, ‘shining’. Feminine form: Munira. Mus‘ad 3 ‘Lucky’, ‘favoured by fortune’.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Munīr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #25 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 627 | listed | Monir | 112 |
| PK Pakistan | #210 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | listed | Munir | 126 |
| IN India | — | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 280 | Munir | 79 |
| AF Afghanistan | #512 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Munir | 24 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Munir | 46 |
| US United States | — | 1,476 | 1 in 225K | 1.5K | Munir | 256 |
| QA Qatar | #166 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Monir | 19 |
| BH Bahrain | #55 | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Monir | 8 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Munir Shakirb. 1969PKMufti Munir Shakir’s is a Islamic and Religious Leader (1969-2025)
- Mounir El Hamdaouib. 1984NLnot in their usual nameMoroccan footballer (born 1984)
- Munir El Haddadib. 1995MAMoroccan association football player
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Munīr mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Luminous’, ‘bright’, ‘shining’. Feminine form: Munira. Mus‘ad 3 ‘Lucky’, ‘favoured by fortune’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- Is Munīr a male or female name?
- Munīr 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Munīr?
- Mondonomo estimates about 277 thousand people named Monir in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Munīr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,476 people named Munīr in 2020, about 1 in 225 thousand residents.
- How common is Munīr compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Munīr is the 25th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Munīr?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mun%C4%ABrThe 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, “Munīr” — the 25th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.