Munmun

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Little one; beloved pet form used as formal name”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Ava — Of uncertain meaning; used as a variant of Eva/Eve, an anglicization of the Irish name Aoife, or from an uncertain Germanic root
• Durba — Sacred grass used in rituals; evergreen
• Kusha — Sacred grass used in Vedic rituals; twin son of Rama and Sita
• Riaan — Little king, kingly, noble
• Mishka — Little mouse, beloved little one
• Ashvi — Little mare, one of the divine twins

More girls' names of Bengali origin

• Meghna — The river Meghna; cloud-river of Bengal
• Shiuli — Night jasmine flower; fragrant autumn bloom
• Tanushree — One with a beautiful body; graceful woman
• Oishee — Divine, of God; belonging to the divine
• Doyel — The Oriental Magpie Robin; national bird of Bangladesh
• Rimjhim — Sound of light rain; pitter-patter of monsoon

Where this comes from

Munmun has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.