Miss
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miss is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 9.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 12K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Thailand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Miss, beauty queen (winner in a female beauty contest)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Miss is read(measured from records)
Miss is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English56%
To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
form of address for an unmarried
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
woman
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
féla ; miss the mark, pola, bara
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
- Thai14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Miss in Thai.
- Spanish7.1%
Miss, beauty queen (winner in a female beauty contest)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miss counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Miss | 138 |
| GB United Kingdom | #827 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Miss | 197 |
| CN China | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 258K | — | Miss | 26 |
| US United States | — | 5,235 | 1 in 64K | 5.2K | Miss | 254 |
| NG Nigeria | #853 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Miss | 35 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Miss | 49 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1 | Miss | 114 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Miss | 41 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Miss is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Maltese, second-person singular imperative of mess
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mary Missb. 1944USAmerican artist (born 1944)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.2K | #3,787 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 61 | #3,787 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1996 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Miss come from?
- Miss, beauty queen (winner in a female beauty contest) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Miss?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Miss mean?
- In English, To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
- Is Miss a male or female name?
- Miss is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Miss?
- In the etymology graph, Ms., Missy and Mrs. are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Miss have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named Miss in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miss.
- How common is the name Miss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,235 people named Miss in 2020, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Miss compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Miss is the 827th most common given name of 404,737 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Miss?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/missThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Miss” — the 827th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.