Murugañ
surname · Latin script
Murugañ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- BHBahrain≈1 in 5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 5.2K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.5K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mauritius, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Murugan in IN India, MY Malaysia, SG Singapore and 5 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Murugañ is found
(measured from records)Murugañ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #729 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 1.6K | Murugan | 52 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Murugan | 34 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #245 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Murugan | 43 |
| IN India | — | 1,251 | 1 in 1.1M | 1.3K | Murugan | 186 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Murugan | 16 |
| SG Singapore | #169 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Murugan | 43 |
| BH Bahrain | #292 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Murugan | 10 |
| MU Mauritius | #354 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Murugan | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Murugañ?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Murugañ in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murugan. After it come South Africa, United Arab Emirates, India and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Murugañ?
- In India, the national register counted 1,251 people named Murugañ, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Murugañ compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Murugañ is the 729th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muruga%C3%B1The 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, “Murugañ” — the 729th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.