Mukasa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Ó Maoilbhearaigh ‘descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Bearach’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mukɑsɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mukasa is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- KEKenya
- USUnited States
- UGUganda
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)
from Ó Maoilbhearaigh ‘descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Bearach’. Although Bearach or ‘Barry’ is a Roscommon saint, the surname Mulberry is located by Woulfe and MacLysaght in Ulster. Compare Gilvarry .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
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)
Mukasa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
God’s chief administrator.
as a nameThe African book of names
In kmb, Pacote
as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu
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)
- Joseph Mukasab. 1860UGUgandan Roman Catholic martyr (1860–1885)
- Ham Mukasab. 1868UGHe was a vizier in the court of Mutesa I of Buganda (in present-day Uganda) and later secretary to Apolo Kagwa. He was fluent in both English and Swahili. He wrote one of the first glossaries of the Ganda language. Ugandan writer
- Shinji Mukasab. 1933JPJapanese business manager
- Ashe Mukasab. 1952UGUgandan footballer
- Victoria Namusisib. 1956UGnot in their usual nameUgandan journalist, political administrator and philanthropist
- Sarah Mukasab. 1963UGUgandan activist
- Victor Mukasab. 1975UGUgandan human rights activist
- Noriyasu Mukasab. 1978JPJapanese kickboxer
- Andrew Mukasab. 1980UGUgandan footballer
- Divine Mukasab. 2007GBEnglish footballer
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 289 | #72,473 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 215 | #86,645 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 154 | #107,038 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 38 | #15,516 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #55,575 |
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 10 | #3 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #50,729 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #110,565 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #363,650 |
| UG Uganda | Parliament of Uganda MP Database — 11th Parliament sitting members | 2026 | 2 | #32 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Mukasa come from?
- from Ó Maoilbhearaigh ‘descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Bearach’. Although Bearach or ‘Barry’ is a Roscommon saint, the surname Mulberry is located by Woulfe and MacLysaght in Ulster. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Mukasa?
- A machine transcription gives /mukɑsɑ/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- What does the name Mukasa mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Ó Maoilbhearaigh ‘descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Bearach’.
- In which country does Mukasa have the most bearers?
- Mukasa 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.
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, “Mukasa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.