Muise
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Probably an altered spelling of Moise 1
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈmuz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muise is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Probably an altered spelling of Moise 1.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Muise 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 Irish, indeed
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)- Virginia Muiseb. 1893USAmerican supercentenarian (1893-2004)
- David Muiseb. 1949CACanadian politician (1949-2017)
- Mark Muiseb. 1957CACanadian politician
- Robert Muiseb. 1965USAmerican attorney
- Morgan Muiseb. 1985Canadian curler
- Andi Muiseb. 1987CACanadian model
- Shygirlb. 1993GBnot in their usual nameEnglish musician and DJ
- Kate MuiseNZNew Zealand science administrator
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,657 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,426 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 52 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #181,178 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Muise mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably an altered spelling of Moise 1. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Muise?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmuz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Muise have the most bearers?
- Muise is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Muise?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muiseThe 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, “Muise”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.