Muna
Muna was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,435 among girls’ names; 1,303 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Muna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Muna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Muna?
#3,435 among girls’ names, 2025
Muna rose from #4,121 in 2015 to #3,435 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.2 to 28.0 per million.
51 babies in 2019, the peak
Muna peaked in 2019, when 51 girls were given it, #3,153 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,435 | 28.0 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,183 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,333 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,545 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,213 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,415 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,153 | 30.4 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,653 | 24.7 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,467 | 26.1 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,137 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,121 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,082 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,828 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,202 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,670 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,087 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,772 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,518 | 24.9 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,187 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,181 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,913 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,149 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,786 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,372 | 22.8 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,999 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,490 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,416 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,331 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,329 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,997 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,361 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,331 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,600 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,199 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,093 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,160 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,409 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,500 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,456 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,235 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,197 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,093 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,779 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,527 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,191 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,527 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,389 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,835 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,408 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,691 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,709 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,168 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,914 | 3.9 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,678 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,390 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,805 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Muna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Muna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Muna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Muna, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,303 Americans ever recorded as Muna. The median Muna alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 3,928 people named Muna (3,874 women and girls, 54 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,088 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 95 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 185 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 493 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Muna born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #2,316 | 0.2× |
Where Muna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Muna is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1968 it was given 8.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Muna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,368 babies since 1880, Muna is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 45 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Muna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Muna and names like it
- Compare Muna and MuminaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMuna peaked in 2019.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Muna since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Muna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Muna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.