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
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mʌsk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Musk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- 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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 911K (inferred from the name graph)
266 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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)
- Errol Muskb. 1946ZASouth African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent
- Maye Muskb. 1948CACanadian-South African model and dietitian
- Elon Muskb. 1971USAmerican businessman (born 1971)
- Justine Muskb. 1972CACanadian author (born 1972)
- Kimbal Muskb. 1972ZASouth African-Canadian-American entrepreneur and restaurateur (born 1972)
- Tosca Muskb. 1974USSouth African filmmaker (born 1974)
- Vivian Jenna Wilsonb. 2004USnot in their usual nameAmerican model
- Griffin Muskb. 2004son of Elon Musk
- Saxon Muskb. 2006son of Elon Musk
- X Æ A-Ⅻ Muskb. 2020USchild of Grimes and Elon Musk
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 306 | #69,166 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 266 | #73,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 260 | #70,273 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #152,390 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #90,140 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 9 | #66,535 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 6 | #64,872 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 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).
- How do you pronounce Musk?
- A machine transcription gives /mʌsk/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Musk?
- In the etymology graph, مشک is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Musk have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
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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”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.