Moussavi

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/məssɑvi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Moussavi is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • CACanada
  • DEGermany

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, b. 1899Mir-Hossein Mousavi, b. 1941Abdolrahim Mousavi, b. 1960Razi Mousavi, b. 1963Farshid Moussavi, b. 1965Seyed Majid Mousavi, b. 1965Zacarias Moussaoui, b. 1968Granaz Moussavi, b. 1974Mohammad Mousavi, b. 1987
  • Abu al-Qasim al-Khoeib. 1899IRnot in their usual nameIranian-Iraqi Islamic scholar
  • Mir-Hossein Mousavib. 1941IRnot in their usual nameIranian architect and politician
  • Abdolrahim Mousavib. 1960IRnot in their usual nameIranian military officer and chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces (1960–2026)
  • Razi Mousavib. 1963IRnot in their usual nameIranian general (1962–2023)
  • Farshid Moussavib. 1965IRIranian-born British architect
  • Seyed Majid Mousavib. 1965IRnot in their usual nameIranian general
  • Zacarias Moussaouib. 1968FRnot in their usual nameFrench citizen and convicted criminal associated with the September 11 attacks; Al-Qaeda operative
  • Granaz Moussavib. 1974IRIranian-Australian poet, film director and screenwriter
  • Mohammad Mousavib. 1987IRnot in their usual nameIranian volleyball player
  • Rina Mousavinot in their usual namePersian-Australian actress

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)

FormalDear Moussavi,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Moussavi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020256#80,054
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010224#83,834
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000177#95,567
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—32#18,104
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202415#45,119
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—7#53,000
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—6#65,966
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082#150,138
US United Stateswru 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)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Moussavi?
In the etymology graph, Mousavi is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Moussavi?
A machine transcription gives /məssɑvi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Moussavi have the most bearers?
Moussavi is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Moussavi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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