Morisse
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɔʁis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morisse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 103K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 543K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morisse 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 329 | Morisse | 200 |
| BE Belgium | 114 | 1 in 103K | 114 | Morisse | 15 |
| US United States | 112 | 1 in 3M | 115 | Morisse | 30 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 543K | — | Morisse | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Morisse | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 18 | 1 in 2.5M | 18 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Morisse is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of morire
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)
- Paul Morisseb. 1866FRFrench translator
- Jean-Marie Morisseb. 1905FRFrench politician and manufacturer
- Lucien Morisseb. 1929FRFrench record producer, songwriter (1929–1970)
- Bjørn Morisseb. 1944NONorwegian illustrator and cartoonist
- Tor Morisseb. 1947NONorwegian illustrator and cartoonist (1947-2017)
- Vincent Morisseb. 1966FRFrench politician
- Åsa Forsblad Morisseb. 1967SESwedish actress
- Éric Morisseb. 1967FRrugby union player (1967-1995)
- Aksel Morisseb. 1972SESwedish actor
- A. MorisseFRentomologist
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 348 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 333 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 329 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 296 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 266 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 249 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 229 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 221 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 180 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 165 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 124 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 115 | #134,929 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Morisse?
- A machine transcription gives /mɔʁis/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Morisse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Morisse in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morisse.
- How common is the name Morisse?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 114 people named Morisse in 2008, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Morisse?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morisseThe 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, “Morisse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.