Muneer

#10,348 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Munir

Muneer has been given to 281 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #10,348 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Muneer, 2025

1 in 474,000

Muneer over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Muneer: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Munir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Muneer means

Muneer is a alternate transcription of Munir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Muneer → 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, 281 boys were recorded with the name Muneer between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2017; its best national rank was #5,188 in 1979.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,273 in 2015 to #10,348 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Muneer?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 244,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #10,348; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Muneer 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 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Muneer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Muneers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Muneer was born before 2009 — so the typical Muneer is around 16 today.

Median birth year: 2009; About 16 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 28.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 70.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 281; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 28.1% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Muneer 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: −3,648; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: −75; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 46.7%; Peak was 2017 (15)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,188; 1979

Spellings of Muneer

Muneer is not the most common spelling — Hunter is, with 91.4% against Muneer's 0.10%.

Hunter91.4%262,238
Gunner8.2%23,486
Munir0.29%845
Muneer0.10%281

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 Muneer is used

Across 1910–2025, Muneer was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 833,833 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Muneer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Muneer around the world

Where Muneer 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
1999–2020
#4,608
in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Muneer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #10,348
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #5,188; 1979
Peak year: 2017; 15 that year
First recorded: 1977
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 281
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Muneer

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

Muneeb Nazeer Zameer Munasar Zaheer Kabeer Dameer Naseer Kaveer Munir Nameer Ahmeer Jaiveer Manveer Jahmeer Mung Basheer Abeer Gurveer Shaheer Rajveer Muntasir Safeer Aveer

Sibling names for Muneer

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Karleigh Rhianna Alysa Adelle Sydnie Kendyl

For a brother

Aaden Kale Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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