Misse
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of mettre
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Misse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 210K
- FRFrance≈1 in 246K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of mettre
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Misse is read(measured from records)
Misse 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.
- French36%
first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of mettre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Misse in Spanish.
- Portuguese16%
inflection of missar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English9.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Misse in English.
- Arabic9.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Misse in Arabic.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Misse 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Misse | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 404 | 1 in 524K | 404 | Misse | 49 |
| FR France | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 246K | 14 | — | — |
| CO Colombia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Misse | 23 |
| ES Spain | 115 | 1 in 435K | 115 | Misse | 25 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 359K | — | Misse | 9 |
| SE Sweden | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 310K | 5 | — | 2 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Misse 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 Dutch, singular present subjunctive of missen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of missus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a pussy-cat, a kitty-cat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, inflection of missan:
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)
- John Misseb. 1885USbaseball player
- Andrea Misseb. 1976ARArgentinian dancer (1976-2012)
- Miquel Missé Sánchezb. 1986ESSpanish sociologist and writer, LGBTI activist
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 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 404 | #20,543 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 115 | #24,917 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 115 | #24,832 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 13 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Misse mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of mettre Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Misse?
- A machine transcription gives /mis/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Misse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Misse in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled misse.
- How common is the name Misse?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 404 people named Misse, about 1 in 524 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Misse?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/misseThe 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, “Misse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.