Mues
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular simple present indicative of mue
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mjuːz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mues is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 69K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- BEBelgium1 in 25Kas Mus
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 Mues 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
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)
third-person singular simple present indicative of mue
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mues 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Mues | 72 |
| PL Poland | — | 479as Muś | 1 in 80K | 245 | Mues | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 468as Mus | 1 in 25K | 468 | Mues | 24 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 336as Mus | 1 in 51K | 336 | Mues | 20 |
| US United States | — | 296 | 1 in 1.1M | 296 | Mues | 117 |
| HR Croatia | — | 16as Mus | 1 in 264K | 21 | — | — |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #276 | — | — | — | Mues | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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)
Mues 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 Dutch, variant of Maas.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Galician, second-person singular present subjunctive of muar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, feminine plural of mû
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gsw, mush, paste, pulp
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)
- Wilhelm Muesb. 1877DEGerman sculptor
- Dietmar Muesb. 1945DEGerman actor and screenwriter (1945–2011)
- Rudiger Muesb. 1946DEbotanist
- Wanja Muesb. 1973DEGerman actor
- Claudia Muesb. 1975Danish weightlifter
- Jona Muesb. 1981DEGerman actor
- Hannah Muesb. 1989DEGerman association football player
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 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 461 | #3,337 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 404 | #3,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 296 | #66,754 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 296 | #63,141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 284 | #73,555 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 10 | #63,304 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Mues mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular simple present indicative of mue Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mues?
- A machine transcription gives /mjuːz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mues have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Mues in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mues.
- How common is the name Mues?
- In the United States, the national register counted 296 people named Mues in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Mues compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Mues is the 276th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muesThe 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, “Mues” — the 276th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.