Misken

surname · Latin script

Meaning: To mistake one for another; mistake in point of knowledge or recognition; misconceive

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Misken is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Malaysia.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

To mistake one for another; mistake in point of knowledge or recognition; misconceive.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Misken counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Misken is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia——Misken7
IN India—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: the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Misken is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Egypt, Türkiye

    Also written Mişken

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Misken is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Afrikaans, to deny or to fail to acknowledge

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In nds (Germany), To mix

    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)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Misken
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#193,690

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Misken mean, and where does it come from?
To mistake one for another; mistake in point of knowledge or recognition; misconceive. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Misken have the most bearers?
Misken is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled misken.

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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, “Misken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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