Memon

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Muslim name, from Arabic momin ‘believer’

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

/mɛmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Memon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 218K
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 10K

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈180,000 people, est.

Sources
202 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Muslim name, from Arabic momin ‘believer’. The Memons are a well-known business community of Gujarat.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Memon 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 Memon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#128≈180,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Memon112
CN China—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 387K—Memon6
US United States—1,5281 in 218K2.1KMemon202
AE United Arab Emirates—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 10K—Memon2
CA Canada—≈420 est.≈1 in 89K—Memon58
SI Slovenia—571 in 37K57—1
EE Estonia—≈19 est.≈1 in 66Klisted—2

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; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Memon is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Mèmòń, Mëmön, Mèmôñ, Mēmôn

  • Arabic surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, India

    Also written Mêmöñ, Mḗmōñ, Mëmôn, Mêmőñ, Mêmőn

  • Spanish surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Pakistan, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Memöñ, Mëmõñ, Mêmöñ, Mëmòn, Mëmõń

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Mémon, Mémóñ

48 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)

Memon 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 Italian, de Memo com a desinência truncada -on

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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)

1850190019502000Abdul Aziz Memon, b. 1888Ali Memon, b. 1946Ayaz Memon, b. 1951Tiger Memon, b. 1960Maria Memon, b. 1986

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)

Formalمحترم Memon صاحب،Dear Mr Memon, (English)
Informalہیلو Memon،Hi Memon, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Memon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.1K#13,798
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,208
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000893#25,865
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—57#6,958
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Where does the name Memon come from?
Muslim name, from Arabic momin ‘believer’. The Memons are a well-known business community of Gujarat. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Memon?
A machine transcription gives /mɛmən/ (IPA) for Urdu.
What does the name Memon mean?
Recorded meaning: Muslim name, from Arabic momin ‘believer’.
In which country does Memon have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 184 thousand people named Memon in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled memon.
How common is the name Memon?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,528 people named Memon in 2010, about 1 in 218 thousand residents.
How common is Memon compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Memon is the 128th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Memon” — the 128th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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