Muså
surname · Latin script
Muså is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish موسی (musa), from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā), from Biblical Hebrew.
- ALAlbania1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 7.6K
- DKDenmark1 in 9.9K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
4,955 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Musa in US United States, ET Ethiopia.
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)
- Ottoman Turkishموسیmusa(measured from records)
- Arabicمُوسَىmūsā(measured from records)
- BiblicalHebrew(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish موسی (musa), from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā), from Biblical Hebrew.
Sources 11
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muså 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.
4,955 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 Muså mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish موسی (musa), from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā), from Biblical Hebrew. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 9 other sources.
- In which country does Muså have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Muså, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled musa.
- Where is Muså most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Muså is densest in Albania — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Muså?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,955 people named Muså in 2020, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Muså compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Muså is the 545th most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Muså?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mus%C3%A5The 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, “Muså” — the 545th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.