Mosen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: definite singular of mos (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
Mosen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 84Kfew records
- DKDenmark1 in 115K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)definite singular of mos
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mosen is found
(measured from records)Mosen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Mosen | 3 |
| US United States | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Mosen | 67 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Mosen | 46 |
| AU Australia | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 463K | 1 | Mosen | 32 |
| DK Denmark | 51 | 1 in 115K | 51 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 12 | — | 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: SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-stat-nimed 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)Mosen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of mose
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, accusative of Mōsēs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kw, table (of data)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Mosén (tratamiento). Mosen Bernat, pensa ezak karzel hori gaitz bada . E 243. Mosen Villaespesaren obia ikusi badezute . Lek SClar 133. Mosen Bernat Etxepare Aphezak . Mde Po 95.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Julius Mosenb. 1803DEGerman Jewish lawyer, dramatist and poet
- Erwin Mosenb. 1932DEGerman sculptor (1932-2016)
- Amy Mosenb. 1984NZNew Zealand cyclist
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mosen mean, and where does it come from?
- definite singular of mos Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mosen?
- Mondonomo estimates about 231 people named Mosen in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mosen. After it come United States, New Zealand, Australia and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mosen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 51 people named Mosen, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mosen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mosenThe 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, “Mosen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.