Mur
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: mouse
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/muɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 899as Mora(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 2Kas Mora
- USUnited States1 in 5.8Kas Mora
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mur 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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
135,368 named Mora
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mora in EC Ecuador.
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)
mouse
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mur is read(measured from records)
Mur 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.
- Spanish51%
mouse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mur in French.
- English12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mur in English.
- Catalan5.4%
wall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Mur 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | 135,368as Mora | 1 in 38 | 135K | — | 6 |
| EC Ecuador | 76,844as Mora | 1 in 220 | 77K | Mora | 8 |
| US United States | 57,464as Mora | 1 in 5.8K | 57K | Mur | 77 |
| ES Spain | 55,638as Mora | 1 in 899 | 56K | Mur | 120 |
| AR Argentina | 22,677as Mora | 1 in 2K | 23K | Mur | 59 |
| SI Slovenia | 97 | 1 in 22K | 97 | Mur | 10 |
135,368 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
Mur is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a (usually free-standing) wall built of overlapping bricks or stones or cement or the like
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, a wall (a free-standing barrier, typically made of bricks, stone or concrete)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 4217 currency code for the Mauritian rupee.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a wall (of stone, concrete or similar material)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ana Francisca Abarca de Boleab. 1602ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer and poet (1602-ca 1690)
- Tomás Murb. 1855ESSpanish painter, sculptor, architect, writer and caricaturist
- Gerritje van Wijngaardenb. 1899NLnot in their usual nameDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Manuel Mur Otib. 1908ESSpanish film director, poet and screenwriter (1908-2003)
- José Barluengab. 1940ESnot in their usual nameSpanish chemist (1940–2016)
- Joan Antoni Mur i Borràsb. 1946ESSpanish politician
- Ricardo Mur Saurab. 1961ESSpanish writer, parson and anthropologist
- Alejandro Soler Murb. 1972ESSpanish politician
- Sergio Murb. 1977ESSpanish actor
- Sandra Muractress
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 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3K | #1,711 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3K | #1,711 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 238 | #84,785 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 201 | #91,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 184 | #92,601 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 97 | #4,529 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 14 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1988 | 3 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2021 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Mur mean, and where does it come from?
- mouse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mur?
- A machine transcription gives /muɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Mur have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 135 thousand people named Mora, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mur most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mur is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Costa Rica holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mur?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 97 people named Mur, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/murThe 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, “Mur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.