Entry № 7058 · Filipino origin

Mutya Mutya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MOOT-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Filipino
Meaning
"Pearl, muse, treasure"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Filipino)

A name that means "pearl, muse, treasure".

Mutya is the Tagalog word for "pearl," "muse," or "precious treasure." Used as a title of honor for a beloved daughter or beauty queen.

Mutya Buena (born 1985) is the British Sugababes singer of Filipino heritage.

Pearl. The Filipino muse.

The name in its native script.

Mutya
Transliteration
Mutya
Pronunciation
/ ˈmuːt.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mutya stands.

Mutya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mutyas before her.

Real people
Mutya Buena
British Sugababes singer.
born 1985
In fiction
Mutya
Common in Filipino fiction.

Names connected to Mutya.

The number behind Mutya.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mutya reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.