Mission
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mission is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 75Kas Mishana(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 398Kas মিশন
- USUnited States1 in 1.8Mas Mishon
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mission itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410 named মিশন, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana, as Mishana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mishon in IN India, BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mission 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | MIShON | 9 |
| US United States | 189as Mishon | 1 in 1.8M | 176 | — | 13 |
| GY Guyana | 10as Mishana | 1 in 75K | 10 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | 17 | MIShON | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 40 | — | 1 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Mission is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a mission; a purpose or duty, a task set by an employer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, mission (duty that involves fulfilling a request)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of missio
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, mission (set of tasks)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, expense; cost; outlay
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)
- Tre Missionb. 1901CACanadian musician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 176 | #107,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 132 | #129,047 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 114 | #135,837 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18 | #67,275 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 17 | #86,479 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #18,722 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Mission mean, and where does it come from?
- A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Mission have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 408 people named মিশন in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mission most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Mission itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Guyana's: the national register counts about 1 in 75 thousand people named Mishana.
- How common is the name Mission?
- In the United States, the national register counted 189 people named Mishon in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/missionThe 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, “Mission”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.