Musel

surname · Latin script

Meaning: masculine singular past active participle of muset

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Musel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
  • LSLesotho≈1 in 82K
  • CZCzechia1 in 111K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

241 people, 2010

Sources
92 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)

Lesotho, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Müsel in DE Germany.

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)

masculine singular past active participle of muset

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Musel 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.

Where Musel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2411 in 1.4M265Musel92
DE Germany≈160 est.≈1 in 500KlistedMüsel29
CZ Czechia961 in 111K96——
BR Brazil571 in 3.7M57——
AT Austria≈53 est.≈1 in 168K—Musel19
LS Lesotho≈24 est.≈1 in 82K—Musel1

241 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; the dfa-band-3 register; MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Musel is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Müsel

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Müsel

  • Turkish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Muşel, Müşel, Müsel

  • Ukrainian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Мусель, Мусел, Müsel, Мусёл, Musél

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Musel 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.

  • In Luxembourgish, Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In frm, muzzle (protruding part of many animal's head)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ff, schoolteacher

    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)

190019502000Karl Musel, b. 1904Robert Musel, b. 1909Gregory Musel, b. 1990

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 Musel,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Musel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000265#69,201
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020254#80,550
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010241#79,075
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—96#17,332
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—96#7,906
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—57#95,634
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Musel mean, and where does it come from?
masculine singular past active participle of muset Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Musel?
A machine transcription gives /məsəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Musel have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 241 people named Musel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled musel.
How common is the name Musel?
In the United States, the national register counted 241 people named Musel in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.

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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, “Musel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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