Ms
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Abbreviation of manuscript
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ms is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 111K(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 171K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 10K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 268 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled M'S in AU Australia and M-S in PK Pakistan.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Abbreviation of manuscript.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ms 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | — | 3 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | M-S | 29 |
| CN China | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Ms | 31 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Ms | 44 |
| US United States | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Ms | 268 |
| AU Australia | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | M'S | 109 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Ms | 29 |
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | Ms | 22 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the id-github-names register. 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)
Ms is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovak, initialism of majstrovstvá sveta (“world championships”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Symbol for megasiemens, an SI unit of electrical conductance equal to 10⁶ siemens.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, abbreviation of Mato Grosso do Sul: a state of Brazil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, abbreviation of Mureș: a county of Romania
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In egy, offspring, child
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 14 | #18,281 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ms mean, and where does it come from?
- Abbreviation of manuscript. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ms have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Ms in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ms?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 14 people named Ms, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ms?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/msThe 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, “Ms”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.