Muniz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the old personal name Muho (see Munoz)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/muniʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muniz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cuba it is the 26th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 301(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 2.1K
- ESSpain1 in 3.6K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 388 (measured from records)
- 1 in 301 (inferred from the name graph)
30,695 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Muñiz in AR Argentina, ES Spain, EC Ecuador.
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)
patronymic from the old personal name Muho (see Munoz).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muniz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 30,695 | 1 in 11K | 31K | Muniz | 388 |
| ES Spain | #428 | 13,860 | 1 in 3.6K | 14K | Muñiz | 106 |
| UY Uruguay | #49 | 11,247 | 1 in 301 | 11K | Muniz | 58 |
| EC Ecuador | #510 | 7,863 | 1 in 2.1K | 7.9K | Muñiz | 18 |
| AR Argentina | #841 | 4,074 | 1 in 11K | 4.1K | Muñiz | 63 |
| CU Cuba | #26 | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Muniz | 13 |
30,695 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Muniz 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 gem-pro, mind, memory
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)
- Muniz Freireb. 1861BRBrazilian lawyer, journalist and politician. Muniz Freire, from the state of Espírito Santo
- Lucio Munizb. 1939UYmúsico y compositor uruguayo
- Agenor Munizb. 1949BRBrazilian footballer and manager
- Chrysostomb. 1953BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian Orthodox bishop
- Angelina Munizb. 1955BRBrazilian actress
- Vik Munizb. 1961BRBrazilian photographer and sculptor (born 1961)
- Liédsonb. 1977BRnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer
- Frankie Munizb. 1985USAmerican actor (born 1985)
- Victoria Munizb. 1989USfigure skater
- Rodrigo Munizb. 2001BRBrazilian 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Muniz mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the old personal name Muho (see Munoz). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Muniz?
- A machine transcription gives /muniʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Muniz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Muniz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muniz.
- Where is Muniz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Muniz is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 301 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Muniz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 30,695 people named Muniz in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Muniz compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Muniz is the 26th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Muniz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/munizThe 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, “Muniz” — the 26th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.