Meuser
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a mouse catcher, from Middle High German mus ‘mouse’ -i- the agent suffix -er
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɔɪsɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meuser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 510K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 597K
- NLNetherlands1 in 720K
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
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 510K (inferred from the name graph)
557 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name for a mouse catcher, from Middle High German mus ‘mouse’ -i- the agent suffix -er.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meuser 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 | 557 | 1 in 597K | 580 | Meuser | 20 |
| BR Brazil | 44 | 1 in 4.8M | 44 | Meuser | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | 24 | 1 in 720K | 24 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 23 | 1 in 510K | 23 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 12 | 1 in 850K | 12 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
557 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Meuser 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 German, occupational name from musen ‘to play the bagpipes’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Caspar Meuserb. 1550DEGerman bookbinder
- Bernhard Meuserb. 1883DEGerman politician (1883-1949)
- Jay Meuserb. 1911USpainter (1911-1963)
- Michael Meuserb. 1952DEGerman sociologist
- Bernhard Meuserb. 1953DEGerman opinion journalist and publisher
- Thomas Meuserb. 1961DEGerman economist
- Dan Meuserb. 1964USAmerican businessman and politician
- Florian Meuserb. 1975photographer
- Maik Meuserb. 1976DEGerman television presenter
- Micki Meuserb. 2000DEGerman musician and record producer
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 580 | #40,641 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 557 | #39,486 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 550 | #37,938 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 24 | #45,460 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 23 | #44,288 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #35,445 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #70,977 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Meuser mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a mouse catcher, from Middle High German mus ‘mouse’ -i- the agent suffix -er. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Meuser?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɔɪsɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Meuser have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 557 people named Meuser, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meuser.
- Where is Meuser most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meuser is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 510 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Meuser?
- In the United States, the national register counted 557 people named Meuser in 2010, about 1 in 597 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meuserThe 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, “Meuser”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.