Missouri
loc · Latin script
Meaning: state, US; N. American people
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Missouri is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 690K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 2.6M
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
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 Missouri 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 690K (inferred from the name graph)
482 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Misuri in IT Italy, GB United Kingdom.
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)
state, US; N. American people
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Missouri 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 482 | 1 in 690K | 482 | — | 19 |
| IT Italy | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 189K | listed | Misuri | 8 |
| ES Spain | 19 | 1 in 2.6M | 19 | Missouri | 3 |
| FR France | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 15M | 13 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Misuri | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 9.6M | — | Missouri | 1 |
482 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Missouri is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Missouri, Missouri River (the longest river in North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana and flowing roughly southeast over 2,300 miles through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, before joining the Mississippi at St. Louis)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, Missouri (a state in the Midwestern region of the United States)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, 1. geogr. rijeka u SAD-u, duga 3725 km, izvire ispod Stjenjaka, ulijeva se u Mississippi 2. savezna država u središnjem dijelu SAD-a, 180.514 km 2 , 5.177.000 stan., glavni grad Jefferson City
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- America McCutchen Drennanb. 1830USnot in their usual nameAmerican missionary, educator
- Missouri Meltonb. 1845USwife of Joseph A. Melton (1845–1914)
- Missouri T. B. Hannab. 1857USAmerican journalist, the first woman newspaper publisher in Washington State, USA
- Jim Missourib. 1917USAmerican baseball player (1917-1989)
- Mohamed Missourib. 1947DZAlgerian boxer
- Rezki Missourib. 1970DZUniversity professor in the field of STAPS and expert in elite sports training science
- Dwayne Missourib. 1978USGerman gridiron football player (born 1978)
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 482 | #44,576 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 468 | #48,712 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 414 | #48,021 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 22 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 13 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #117,966 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Missouri mean, and where does it come from?
- state, US; N. American people Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Missouri have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 482 people named Missouri, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Missouri most common?
- Missouri is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 690 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Missouri?
- In the United States, the national register counted 482 people named Missouri in 2010, about 1 in 690 thousand 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/missouriThe 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, “Missouri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.