Munga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Munga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 575Kas Monga(measured from records)
- KEKenya≈1 in 3.6K
- ESSpain1 in 62Kas Manga
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 Munga 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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kenya, 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 Monga in IN India, NZ New Zealand, CH Switzerland 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Munga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 1 | Munga | 14 |
| IN India | 2,306as Monga | 1 in 575K | 2.3K | Monga | 153 |
| ES Spain | 801as Manga | 1 in 62K | 801 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 689as Manga | 1 in 307K | 689 | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 599K | — | Monga | 8 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Monga | 21 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Monga | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | 68as Monga | 1 in 124K | 68 | Monga | 4 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners. 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)
Munga is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, genitive singular of munk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, inflection of mungere:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, The bonnet monkey.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pjt, night
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sīka monēta Mongolijā, 0,01 tugriks
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Victor Munga Oderab. 1979KEbadminton 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 316 | #10,149 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 128 | #24,110 |
| KE Kenya | Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners | 2022 | 1 | #931 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Munga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Munga in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled munga.
- How common is the name Munga?
- In India, the national register counted 2,306 people named Monga, about 1 in 575 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Munga?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mungaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Munga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.