Given name & surname · also Korean
Mun
Mun is a surname from Korean, ultimately from Chinese.
Original Korean문
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mun comes from Korean, and ultimately from Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Mun as a surname developed from 文.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mun through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1928. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 758 as a first name in 2020; 2,193 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.
Mun’s family of names
In English usage, Mun as a surname developed from the Chinese form 文. In English usage, Mun as a surname has a related form in Moon. In English usage, Mun as a surname has a related form in Moon.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mun has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Chinese roots to each of them.
Chinesewhere Mun comes from · 1 name
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 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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