Misson
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/misson/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Misson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably from a derivative of Old English mos (“moss; marsh, swamp”).
- BEBelgium1 in 23K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 71K
- SISlovenia1 in 96K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
516 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Probably from a derivative of Old English mos (“moss; marsh, swamp”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Misson is found
(measured from records)Misson 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.
516 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Maximilien Missonb. 1650FRFrench travel writer
- Josef Missonb. 1803ATAustrian author (1803–1875)
- Frank Missonb. 1938AUAustralian cricketer
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Misson mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably from a derivative of Old English mos (“moss; marsh, swamp”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Misson?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /misson/; in Portuguese /misõ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Misson?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 516 people named Misson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled misson. After it come Belgium, United States, Argentina and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Misson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Misson is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Misson?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 516 people named Misson, about 1 in 410 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Misson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/missonThe 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, “Misson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.