Muna

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Muna: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Muna: Recorded since 1969, it reached #279 in 1990, and it stood at #2,411 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
71times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#279highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#916
1997	#1045
1998	#724
1999	#816
2000	#728
2001	#779
2002	#761
2003	#742
2004	#866
2005	#645
2006	#1052
2007	#963
2008	#1034
2009	#1105
2010	#1429
2011	#1438
2012	#1649
2013	#1707
2014	#2659
2015	#1649
2016	#1749
2017	#1733
2018	#2187
2019	#2643
2020	#2615
2021	#4634
2022	#3533
2023	#4709
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 42 of the 53 years from 1969 to 2021.

In 2021: #487 among girls in Norway, #4634 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1969–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #515 among girls in Norway in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1969–2021
Highest recorded position: #279 among girls in Norway, in 1990 (recorded 1969–2021).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Muna appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 42 years beginning in 1969, and has registered 327 births with the name.

Muna across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Muna's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#515 (1969)	#279 (1990)	#487 (2021)	42 of 53	327 (1969–2021)	19 (1990)
England and Wales · Girls	#916 (1996)	#645 (2005)	#2411 (2024)	29 of 29	620 (1996–2024)	48 (2005)

Muna by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Muna in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	5	1 of 10	5
1970s	44	7 of 10	6
1980sbusiest	94	10 of 10	9
1990s	88	10 of 10	9
2000s	66	9 of 10	7
2010s	26	4 of 10	7
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 9 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Muna appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #279 in Norway in 1990.

Muna's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2659	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1707	17	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1438	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1105	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1034	29	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#963	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1052	26	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#645	48	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#866	31	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#742	37	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#761	33	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#779	31	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#728	32	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#816	27	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#724	32	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1045	19	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#916	23	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#487	4	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#505	5	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#534	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#547	5	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#384	11	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#572	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#480	7	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#454	8	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#515	6	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#432	8	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#430	8	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#381	10	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#461	7	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#475	7	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#573	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#515	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#398	9	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#650	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#459	8	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#533	6	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#376	11	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#313	14	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#564	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#279	19	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#496	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#405	11	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#288	17	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#398	11	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#311	15	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#391	11	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#660	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#507	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#545	6	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#643	4	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#450	8	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#374	10	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#516	6	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#619	4	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#457	7	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#617	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#535	5	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#515	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1969 and 2024, ranked in 53 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #279, first reached in 1990.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 48 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rosalind · #274, 49y
Gwen · #271, 52y
Faisal · #288, 49y
Nikolay · #294, 51y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Clyde · #279, 33y
Carine · #278, 31y
Ruta · #280, 37y
Judy · #277, 57y

Muna was ranked #279 in Norway · Girls in 1990. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Muna and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Muna without appearing here.

Muna moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #5493.
Brittany Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3533 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Muna

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #1286.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #1785.
Karin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #3192.
Finn Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1733 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #3519.

Moved the opposite way to Muna

Zoe Compare
Between 1987 and 2021 in Norway · Girls, Muna went from #288 to #487 while Zoe went from #637 to #321.
Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Muna went from #916 to #2411 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Muna went from #916 to #2411 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Muna went from #916 to #2411 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.

Moved the same way as Muna

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Muna went from #916 to #2411 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Muna went from #916 to #2411 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Muna went from #916 to #2411 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Muna went from #916 to #2411 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #279 in Norway in 1990. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Muna

Muna at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Muna across 2 official records

Muna by decade in Norway · Girls

Muna appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Muna moved ahead of

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Muna at a glance

Muna across 2 official records

Muna by decade in Norway · Girls

Muna appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Muna

Muna and the names beside it

Muna moved ahead of

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