Muta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of mootah (“marijuana”)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/mʲʉːtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 186K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 580K
- BRBrazil1 in 681K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
311 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Alternative form of mootah (“marijuana”).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Muta 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.
311 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Muta 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 Arabic, obeyed
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In jpx-pro, together with
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In tet, to vomit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, alternative form of buta (“butt; thick end, stock; butte; stocky person”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, mire, mud; decaying organic matter in the bottom of a lake, etc.
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)- Hirokuni Mutab. 1910JPJapanese military personnel (1910-1987)
- Teizō Mutab. 1928JPJapanese actor and voice actor
- Taizō Mutab. 1937JPJapanese physicist
- Kazue Mutab. 1956JPJapanese sociologist
- Kōji Mutab. 1961JPJapanese actor
- Keigo Mutab. 1979JPJapanese actor
- Masashi Mutab. 1985JPJapanese child actor
- Yusuke Mutab. 1990JPJapanese association football player
- Seiji MutaJPJapanese animator
- Keiko MutaJPJapanese screenwriter
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 311 | #25,618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 152 | #108,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 150 | #121,361 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 139 | #18,167 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 122 | #137,327 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 119 | #25,316 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 34 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 34 | #64,880 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 32 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 32 | #67,095 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #36,962 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 11 | #76,335 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Muta mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of mootah (“marijuana”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Muta?
- A machine transcription gives /mʲʉːtə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Muta have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 311 people named Muta, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Muta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Muta is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Muta?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 311 people named Muta, about 1 in 681 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mutaThe 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, “Muta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.