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Munir

#3,024 in 2025Boys' name

Bright, shining

Munir has been given to 845 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #3,024 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Munir, 2025

1 in 80,900

Munir over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Munir: meaning, origin, and history

Bright, shining

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Munir means

Munir means “bright, shining”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 845 boys were recorded with the name Munir between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,826 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,826 in 2020 to #3,024 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,652 in 2015 to #3,024 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.

How common is Munir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 41,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,024
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Munir 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 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Munir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Munirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Munir was born before 2011 — so the typical Munir is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
845
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (232).

Is Munir 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
−124
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−198
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+628
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.37×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.2%
Peak was 2024 (44)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,826
2020

Spellings of Munir

Munir is not the most common spelling — Junior is, with 77.2% against Munir's 1.5%.

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 Munir is used

Across 1910–2025, Munir was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 283,384 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Munir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Munir around the world

Where Munir 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
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2025–2025
    #4,476
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2019
    #2,583
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #588
    in 2003

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.

Munir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,024
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 198
Best rank ever
#2,826
2020
Peak year
2024
44 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
845
Count in 2025
41

Names similar to Munir

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

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Sibling names for Munir

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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