Mui
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Chinese plum
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmuɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common given name.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.6K
- VNVietnam≈1 in 160as Mai
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 Mui 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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 405 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈620,000 named Mai, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mai in VN Vietnam, US United States, NG Nigeria and 2 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(measured from records)
covering roof (for car, boat, etc.); hood
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mui is read(measured from records)
Mui is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English52%
Chinese plum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mui in Swahili.
- Malay8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mui in Malay.
- Chinese7.7%
variant of Mel
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mui 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #46 | ≈620,000 est. | ≈1 in 160 | listed | Mai | 226 |
| CN China | — | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Mai | 100 |
| US United States | — | 20,650as Mai | 1 in 16K | 21K | Mai | 405 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Mai | 37 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Mui | 52 |
| HK Hong Kong | #829 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Mui | 65 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,282as Mai | 1 in 2.6K | 2.3K | — | 5 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #61 | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Mai | 1 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Mui is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, covering roof (for car, boat, etc.); hood
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Tongan, place or space behind or further back; rear; background; end, extremity, tip; back, rear, hind; later; young, immature, only partly grown or developed (as yet)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In niu, the last; be last, follow; unripe, immature
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Mei Yaochenb. 1002CNnot in their usual namepoet
- Mei Qingb. 1623not in their usual nameChinese landscape painter, calligrapher, writer and poet (1623-1697)
- Mei Lanfangb. 1894CNnot in their usual namePeking opera artist (1894-1961)
- Mei Ju-aob. 1904CNnot in their usual nameChinese jurist, professor, politician, and author (1904-1973)
- Mei Baojiub. 1934CNnot in their usual namePeking opera artist (1934-2016)
- Chiang C. Meib. 1935USnot in their usual nameAmerican fluid dynamicist
- Ann Muib. 1959CNHong Kong actor and singer (1959-2000)
- Anita Muib. 1963CNHong Kong singer and actress (1963–2003)
- Mei Tingb. 1975CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress
- Mei Fangb. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese Professional Footballer
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 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,743 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.4K | #8,916 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Mui come from?
- covering roof (for car, boat, etc.); hood Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mui?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmuɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mui mean?
- In English, Chinese plum
- In which country does Mui have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 618 thousand people named Mai in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mui?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,650 people named Mai in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Mui compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Mui is the 46th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mui?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muiThe 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, “Mui” — the 46th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.