Misser
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: One who misses
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/mɪsɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Misser is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DKDenmark
- TRTürkiye
- FRFrance
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)indefinite plural of mis
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Misser is read
(measured from records)Misser 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.
- English44%
One who misses.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Danish13%
indefinite plural of mis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish9.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Misser in Turkish.
- French9.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Misser in French.
- Spanish6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Misser in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- DKDenmark
- TRTürkiye
- FRFrance
- INIndia
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Misser 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 Swedish, indefinite plural of miss
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, present of missa
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)- François Misserb. 1956FRFrench journalist and Africa specialist
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 113 | #4,814 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #180,683 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #130,122 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #3,481 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Where does the name Misser come from?
- indefinite plural of mis Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Misser?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪsɐ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Misser mean?
- In English, One who misses.
- In which country does Misser have the most bearers?
- Misser is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Misser?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/misserThe 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, “Misser”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.