Muecke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: l.from Middle High German mucke ‘midge’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Muecke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 260Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 648K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.3Mfew records
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 Muecke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 215K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 named Mücke, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Muecke in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mücke in DE Germany, AT Austria.
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)l.from Middle High German mucke ‘midge’. ‘gnat’, nickname for an irritating person or someone considered to be of no importance. Compare Muck. 2. In Silesia this can also be from the Slavic personal name Micka, a pet form of Michael, or a habitational name from Miicka (Upper Lausitz).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Muecke is found
(measured from records)Muecke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Mücke | 89 |
| US United States | 513 | 1 in 648K | 513 | Muecke | 159 |
| BR Brazil | 382as Mucke | 1 in 554K | 382 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Mücke | 16 |
| AU Australia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 256K | — | Muecke | 66 |
| CH Switzerland | 50as Mücke | 1 in 168K | 50 | Muecke | 12 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Muecke | 1 |
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: the dfa-band-1 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hugo Mueckeb. 1842AUSouth Australian businessman and politician (1842–1929)
- Frances Mueckeb. 1946Roman classicist and FAHA
- James MueckeAUAustralian ophthalmologist
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Muecke come from?
- l.from Middle High German mucke ‘midge’. ‘gnat’, nickname for an irritating person or someone considered to be of no importance. Compare Muck. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Muecke mean?
- Recorded meaning: l.from Middle High German mucke ‘midge’.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Muecke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Mücke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Brazil, Austria and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Muecke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 513 people named Muecke in 2010, about 1 in 648 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/mueckeThe 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, “Muecke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.