Musk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mɐsk/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Musk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 266 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- NONorway1 in 911K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 911K (inferred from the name graph)
266 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Musk
- English:/mɐsk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Musk is found
(measured from records)Musk 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 266 | 1 in 1.3M | 306 | Musk | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 29 | 1 in 7.3M | 29 | — | — |
| IN India | 16 | 1 in 83M | 16 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 6 | 1 in 911K | 6 | — | — |
266 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Musk 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.
In gem-pro, dust, mould
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Basque, Almizcle. v. musket. Zein ere untzitan izan baita muskik edo bertze ur preziosik . SP Gudu 242 (He 247 muxket ) .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Maye Muskb. 1948CACanadian-South African model and dietitian
- Elon Muskb. 1971USAmerican businessman (born 1971)
- Justine Muskb. 1972CACanadian author (born 1972)
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Musk mean, and where does it come from?
- A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Musk?
- In the etymology graph, مشک is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Musk?
- In English /mɐsk/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Musk?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 266 people named Musk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled musk. After it come Brazil, India, Netherlands and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Musk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Musk is densest in Norway — about 1 in 911 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Musk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 266 people named Musk in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Musk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muskThe 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, “Musk” — ranked 69166th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.