Morissette
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Morissette is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: North American French spelling of Morisset.
- USUnited States1 in 336K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 336K (inferred from the name graph)
989 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
North American French spelling of Morisset.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morissette 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 | 989 | 1 in 336K | 989 | Morissette | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | — | — | — | Morissette | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | — | 1 | Morissette | 4 |
| FR France | — | — | 11 | — | — |
989 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Émilien Morissetteb. 1927CACanadian politician
- Jean-Guy Morissetteb. 1937CACanadian ice hockey player (1937-2011)
- Joseph Paul Pierre Morissetteb. 1944CACanadian Catholic bishop
- Claire Morissetteb. 1950CACanadian cycling activist (1950-2007)
- Dave Morissetteb. 1971CACanadian ice hockey player
- Louis Morissetteb. 1973CACanadian actor and screenwriter
- Alanis Morissetteb. 1974CACanadian-American singer (born 1974)
- Wade Morissetteb. 1974CACanadian musician
- Stéphanie Morissetteb. 1977CACanadian artist
- Catherine Morissetteb. 1979CACanadian politician
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 989 | #25,102 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 948 | #24,680 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 916 | #27,817 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #129,733 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Morissette mean, and where does it come from?
- North American French spelling of Morisset. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Morissette have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 989 people named Morissette, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morissette.
- Where is Morissette most common?
- Morissette is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 336 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Morissette?
- In the United States, the national register counted 989 people named Morissette in 2010, about 1 in 336 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/morissetteThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Morissette”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.