Memon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Muslim name, from Arabic momin ‘believer’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/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.
- 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)
- Record sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Muslim name, from Arabic momin ‘believer’. The Memons are a well-known business community of Gujarat.
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #128 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Memon | 112 |
| US United States | — | 1,528 | 1 in 218K | 2.1K | Memon | 202 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Memon | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Memon | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Memon | 60 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 57 | 1 in 37K | 57 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 66K | listed | — | 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 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)- Abdul Aziz Memonb. 1888PKPakistani Scholar of Arabic
- Ali Memonb. 1946KENew Zealand planning academic (1946–2019)
- Ayaz Memonb. 1951INIndian writer, journalist, columnist, author
- Tiger Memonb. 1960INIndian criminal
- Maria Memonb. 1986PKjournalist in Pakistan
- Maqsood MemonPKPakistani police officer
- Neelu JenningsNZnot in their usual namefounder of charity "Limitless with Support", which links able-bodied and disabled people
- Rafique Ahmed MemonGBresearcher
- Najma MemonPKresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-3241-8423)
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,798 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,208 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 893 | #25,865 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 57 | #6,958 |
| US United States | wru 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/memonThe 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, “Memon” — the 128th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.