Misan
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: third-person plural present indicative of misar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries
/misɑn/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Misan is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 83Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 510K
- CZCzechia≈1 in 890K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person plural present indicative of misar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Misan is read
(measured from records)Misan is one spelling over 5 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.
- English31%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Misan in English.
- Hindi18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Misan in Hindi.
- Spanish9.0%
third-person plural present indicative of misar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Misan in Swahili.
- Indonesian7.0%
honey
as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Misan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Misan | 31 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | listed | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 703K | — | Misan | 10 |
| PH Philippines | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Misan | 7 |
| DE Germany | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Misan | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 20 | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 885K | 3 | — | — |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Misan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, accusative singular of misa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In oj, plural of mishi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, first cousin
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In alq, firewood
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)- Misan SagayBritish-Nigerian screenwriter
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #65,193 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Misan mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of misar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Misan?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /misɑn/; in Indonesian /misan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Misan a male or female name?
- Misan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Misan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Misan in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled misan.
- How common is the name Misan?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 20 people named Misan, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Misan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/misanThe 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, “Misan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.