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Mounir

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Munir

Mounir has been given to 125 babies in the U.S. since 1992. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2013, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Mounir, 2023

1 in 414,000

Mounir over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mounir: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Munir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mounir means

Mounir is a alternate transcription of Munir.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mounir is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mu.ˈniːr/ for Mounir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mounir → Munir. The family’s meaning is “bright, shining”, recorded in the naming reference for Munir.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Munir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 125 boys were recorded with the name Mounir between 1992 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2013; its best national rank was #7,381 in 2013.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Mounir?

Mounir had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 214,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mounir sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mounir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mounirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mounir was born before 2012 — so the typical Mounir is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
125
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Mounir rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2013 (11)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,381
2013

Spellings of Mounir

Mounir is not the most common spelling — Munir is, with 50.0% against Mounir's 7.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Mounir around the world

Where Mounir ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    1956–2025
    #1,563
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1987–1993
    #359
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mounir by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,381
2013
Peak year
2013
11 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
125
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mounir

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MouradMouhamadMoussaMousaAvenirMoustafaMouryaAnirMouaMouadMouctarMoustaphaMouriceMouhamedMouhammadMunirMountMouhamadouNirMoultonMoultrieMoutazOnirMonir

Sibling names for Mounir

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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