Mouse
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Any small rodent of the genus Mus
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists, 2023
/maʊs/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Mouse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Somalia than in any other country.
- SOSomalia≈1 in 9.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 460Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 588K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Somalia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mouse 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SO Somalia | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | 1 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 566 | 1 in 588K | 1.9K | Mouse | 151 |
| BR Brazil | 156 | 1 in 1.4M | 156 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 460K | — | Mouse | 56 |
| IN India | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Mouse | 9 |
| CU Cuba | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 357K | — | Mouse | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 313K | — | Mouse | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Mouse | 7 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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)Mouse 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 English, Jéndé, tsétsé
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
Americanized form of German Maus.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Portuguese, mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, mouse (Classifier: 隻／只 c; 個／个 c)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, mouse (input device)
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)- Mouse Morrisb. 1951IEIrish horse trainer and jockey
- Mausu MitsukiJPnot in their usual nameJapanese illustrator
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 572 | #36,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 566 | #38,948 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 156 | #44,888 |
| SO Somalia | Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists | 2023 | 1 | #53 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mouse mean, and where does it come from?
- Any small rodent of the genus Mus. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Mouse?
- In the etymology graph, Mussel is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mouse?
- In English /maʊs/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Mouse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Mouse in Somalia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mouse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 566 people named Mouse in 2010, about 1 in 588 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mouseThe 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, “Mouse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.