Muša
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Latvian: fly (small two-winged insect, belonging to the order Diptera, especially family Muscidae)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Muša is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 67K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 406as Mussa
- JOJordan≈1 in 1.6Kas Mousa
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 Muša 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 named Mussa, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mousa in US United States, SA Saudi Arabia, JO Jordan, Муса in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan, Mussa in TZ Tanzania and Moussa in ES Spain.
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)1° zemlja za pašu, pašnjak, općinska ispaša, koja se kasnije može podijeliti; 2° toponim; 3° međa između dva sela ili općine
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
How Muša is read
(measured from records)Muša is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Latvian57%
fly (small two-winged insect, belonging to the order Diptera, especially family Muscidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
debess dienvidu puslodes zvaigznājs (latīņu "Musca", saīsinājums "Mus") Piena Ceļā netālu no Dienvidu Krusta, Latvijā nav redzams; spožākās zvaigznes Mušas α spožums sasniedz 2,7. zvaigžņlielumu, un tā atrodas 306 ly attālumā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
kukaiņu klases divspārņu kārtas mušveidīgo apakškārtas dzimta ("Muscidae"), Latvijā nav pētīta
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
pilsēta Turcijā, ila administratīvais centrs, 81800 iedzīvotāju (2013. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
- Croatian34%
1° zemlja za pašu, pašnjak, općinska ispaša, koja se kasnije može podijeliti; 2° toponim; 3° međa između dva sela ili općine
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-CroatianSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Muša 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #60 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 406 | 17 | Mussa | 55 |
| RU Russia | #392 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | register #164 | Муса | 141 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Mousa | 113 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Mousa | 82 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,954as Moussa | 1 in 8.4K | 6K | Moussa | 37 |
| US United States | — | 4,955 | 1 in 67K | 5.2K | Mousa | 272 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #814 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Муса | 16 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,124 | 1 in 2.7K | 1.1K | — | — |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 958as Муса | 1 in 2.2K | 958 | Musa | 11 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)Muša 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 Lithuanian, third-person singular present of mušti
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Muša mean?
- In Latvian, fly (small two-winged insect, belonging to the order Diptera, especially family Muscidae)
- In which country does Muša have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 144 thousand people named Mussa in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Muša most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Muša is densest in Albania — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Muša?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,955 people named Muša in 2020, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Muša compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Muša is the 60th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mu%C5%A1aThe 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, “Muša” — the 60th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.