Missón
surname · Latin script
Missón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably from a derivative of Old English mos (“moss; marsh, swamp”).
- ARArgentina1 in 342K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 23K
- UYUruguay1 in 71K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
516 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Misson in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, BE Belgium and 2 more.
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)
Probably from a derivative of Old English mos (“moss; marsh, swamp”).
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Missón 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.
516 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Missón mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably from a derivative of Old English mos (“moss; marsh, swamp”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Missón have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 516 people named Missón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled misson.
- Where is Missón most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Missón is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Missón?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 516 people named Missón, about 1 in 410 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miss%C3%B3nThe 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, “Missón”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.