Given name & surname
Mounir
“a luminous man”
Mounir is a variant of Munir. One Arabic interpretation is “a luminous man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mounir is a variant of Munir. One Arabic interpretation is “a luminous man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Mounir is a variant of Munir. An origin associated with Munir is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mounir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 125
- 125 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2013. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 904 as a first name in 2020; 163 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mounir’s family of names
Mounir has a related form in Munir. In French usage, Mounir has a conventional equivalent in the English form Munir. In Greek usage, Mounir as a surname is a transliteration of Μουνίρ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mounir
- Munir MohamediMoroccan footballerborn 1989
- Mounir El HamdaouiMoroccan footballer (born 1984)
- Mounir ObbadiMoroccan and French footballerborn 1983
- Mounir FatmiMoroccan artist who lives and works in Paris. (born 1970)
- Mounir BoukadidaTunisian association football playerborn 1967
- Mounir ChouiarMoroccan association football player (born 1999)
- Mounir MahjoubiFrench politicianborn 1984
- Mounir HamoudNorwegian footballer (1985–2024)
- Mounir ChaftarGerman footballerborn 1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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