Munio or Muño is a masculine given name of uncertain origin, possibly GermanicJaime de Salazar Acha (1985), "Una familia de la Alta Edad Media: Los Vela y su realedad histórica", ''Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos'' (Madrid: Asociación Española de Estudios Genealogicos y Heraldicos), vol. 1, p. 24n. or Latin.Lidia Becker (2009), ''Hispano-romanisches Namenbuch: Untersuchung der Personennamen vorrömischer, griechischer und lateinisch-romanischer Etymologie auf der Iberischen Halbinsel im Mittelalter (6.–12. Jahrhundert)'' (De Gruyter), pp. 741ff. The accent may originally have been on the final syllable, yielding the spellings Munió, Muñó and Muñón in modern Spanish. Its patronymic form is

Muñoz Muñoz ( or ) is a Spanish language, Spanish-language surname—with a Portuguese language, Portuguese-language variant (Munhoz (surname), Munhoz), from Basque "muinoa" (Hill), the surname got expanded during the Reconquista with massive settlements ...

or Muñiz (from the medieval Latin

genitive In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated ) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun. A genitive can al ...

form ''Munionis''). It is etymologically distinct from the name

Nuño (Spanish) or (Catalan) is a masculine given name of Latin origin (, , , and so on). Its Portuguese form is . Its patronymic is (). Already in the Middle Ages the name was being confused with the similar but distinct name Munio. The meaning of t ...

and Nuno, with which it has often been confused since the Middle Ages. It may refer to: * Munio Núñez, Count of Castile (899–c. 901 and c. 904–c. 909) * Munio Vélaz (died before 931), Count of Álava and probably also of Biscay * Munio or

Muño Alfonso Munio or Muño Alfonso (died 2 August 1143) was a Galician nobleman and military leader in the ''Reconquista'', the governor of Toledo under Alfonso VII. He is the hero of the second book of the anonymous '' Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris'', a cont ...

(died 1143), Galician nobleman, military leader in the ''Reconquista'', and governor of Toledo *

Munio Peláez Munio or Muño Peláez (''floruit'' 1105–1142; died perhaps 1149) was a Galician magnate, a member of the Banu Gómez clan, during the reigns of Alfonso VI, Urraca and Alfonso VII. By December 1108 he held the title of ''comes'' (count), the hi ...

(died 1149?), Galician magnate * Munio of Zamora (1237–1300), Spanish Dominican friar, seventh Master General of the Dominican Order, and bishop *

Munio Kasiringua Muniovita Kasiringua (born 1 September 1987) is a Namibian rugby union player, currently playing with the Namibia national team and the in the South African Currie Cup competition. His regular position is lock. Rugby career Kasiringua was bo ...

(born 1987), Namibian rugby union player *

Munio Pillinger Munio Pillinger was a male Austrian international table tennis player. Career He won two bronze medals at the 1926 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's doubles with Paul Flussmann and men's singles and a silver medal in the men's tea ...

, Austrian table tennis player in the 1920s *

Munio Weinraub Munio Gitai Weinraub (March 6, 1909 - September 24, 1970) was an Israeli architect, a pioneer of modern architecture and urban and environmental planning in Israel, and one of the most prominent representatives of the Bauhaus heritage in the count ...

(1909–1970), Israeli architect

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