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Muna

#3,435 in 2025Girls' name

Wishes, desires

Muna has been given to 1,303 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #3,435 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Muna, 2025

1 in 73,700

Muna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Muna: meaning, origin, and history

Wishes, desires

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Muna means

Muna means “wishes, desires”.

Origin, language, and formation

Muna is used in Lun Bawang.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,303 girls were recorded with the name Muna between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 2019; its best national rank was #3,153 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,415 in 2020 to #3,435 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,121 in 2015 to #3,435 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Muna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 73,700
45 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 35,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,435
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
51,066 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Muna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Muna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Munas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Muna was born before 2008 — so the typical Muna is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,303
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (375).

Is Muna 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
+748
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+980
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+686
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.2%
Peak was 2019 (51)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,153
2019

Spellings of Muna

Muna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 21.8% against Muna's 0.03%.

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.

Where Muna is used

Across 1910–2025, Muna was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 184,980 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Muna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Muna around the world

Where Muna 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
    1996–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    2018–2018
    #7,375
    in 2018
  • Norway
    1880–2021
    #460
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Muna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,435
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 980
Best rank ever
#3,153
2019
Peak year
2019
51 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,303
Count in 2025
45

Names similar to Muna

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

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Sibling names for Muna

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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