Muscat
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from Muscott in Norton, Northamptonshire, or Muscoates, North Riding of Yorkshire; first attested Celestria de Musecot 1206
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Muscat is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Australia than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 140Kfew records
- EEEstonia≈1 in 230K
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 Muscat itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Moscatel in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia.
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)from Muscott in Norton, Northamptonshire, or Muscoates, North Riding of Yorkshire; first attested Celestria de Musecot 1206
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Muscat 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Moscatel | 148 |
| OM Oman | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Muscat | 1 |
| FR France | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 193 | — | 1 |
| IN India | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Muscat | 5 |
| US United States | 875 | 1 in 380K | 892 | Moscatel | 161 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Muscat | 73 |
| CA Canada | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Moscatel | 60 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Muscat is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
probably a variant spelling of Muscott.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, muscat (all senses)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, MUSCÁT, -Ă, muscați, -te, adj. (Despre struguri sau vin) Tămâios.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)- Angelo Muscatb. 1930MTactor (1930–1977)
- Mike Muscatb. 1952USAmerican actor
- Kevin Muscatb. 1973AUAustralian association football player and manager
- Joseph Muscatb. 1974MTformer Prime Minister of Malta
- Mario Muscatb. 1976MTMaltese football goalkeeper
- Emmanuel Muscatb. 1984AUMaltese footballer
- Jessika Muscatb. 1989MTMaltese singer
- Rowen Muscatb. 1991MTMaltese football player
- Zach Muscatb. 1993MTMaltese association football player
- Emma Muscatb. 1999MTMaltese singer-songwriter, pianist and model
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 892 | #28,435 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 875 | #27,534 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 841 | #27,085 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 212 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 193 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 186 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 166 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 14 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Muscat mean, and where does it come from?
- from Muscott in Norton, Northamptonshire, or Muscoates, North Riding of Yorkshire; first attested Celestria de Musecot 1206 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Muscat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Muscat in Australia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moscatel.
- How common is the name Muscat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 875 people named Muscat in 2010, about 1 in 380 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muscatThe 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, “Muscat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.