Musić
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mus̪itɕ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Musić is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bosnia & Herzegovina it is the 21st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ), from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “.
- HRCroatia1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 1.8K
- SISlovenia1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Musić itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
4,940 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mušič in SI Slovenia.
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)
- Middle Englishmusik(measured from records)
- Anglo-Normanmusik(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekμουσικήmousikḗ(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΜοῦσαMoûsa“Muse”(measured from records)
From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ), from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”), an Ancient Greek deity of the arts. By surface analysis, muse + -ic (“pertaining to”). In this sense, displaced native Old English drēam (“music”), whence Modern English dream.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Musić 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,940 | 1 in 67K | 4.9K | Musić | 14 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #21 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Musić | 17 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,350as Mužík | 1 in 7.9K | 1.4K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | #517 | 784 | 1 in 5.4K | 784 | Musić | 28 |
| SI Slovenia | #374 | 648 | 1 in 3.2K | 648 | Mušič | 18 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Musić | 1 |
4,940 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling music. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Musić 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 Polish, Middle Polish form of musieć
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 784 | #770 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 716 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #281,702 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Musić mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ), from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Musić?
- A machine transcription gives /mus̪itɕ/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Musić have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Musić, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled musić.
- How common is the name Musić?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,940 people named Musić in 2010, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Musić compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Musić is the 21st most common surname of 10,995 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/musi%C4%87The 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, “Musić” — the 21st most common surname in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.