Musse
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mousse (a type of aired pudding)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məss/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Musse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mali than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 840K(measured from records)
- SOSomalia≈1 in 17K
- NONorway1 in 23K
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 Musse itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mali (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈860 named Muesse, est.
Highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Müsse in DE Germany and Muesse in ML Mali.
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)
mousse (a type of aired pudding)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Musse 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML Mali | #849 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Muesse | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 731 | 1 in 290K | 731 | — | 3 |
| SO Somalia | #420 | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 5 | Musse | 9 |
| US United States | — | 396 | 1 in 840K | 638 | Musse | 130 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Müsse | 44 |
| SE Sweden | — | 275 | 1 in 37K | 275 | Musse | 21 |
| NO Norway | — | 240 | 1 in 23K | 240 | Musse | 16 |
| FI Finland | — | 155 | 1 in 36K | 155 | Musse | 12 |
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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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)
Musse 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 German, alternative form of Muße
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, hiding place; cache
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a Muslim
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)
- Félix-Joseph Musseb. 1883FRFrench military personnel (1883–1964)
- Malene Müllertzb. 1949DKnot in their usual nameDanish ceramicist and designer (born 1949)
- Carlos Musseb. 1955UYUruguayan painter
- Matthias Müsseb. 1966DEGerman actor
- Ubah Musseb. 1982SOSwedish actress
- Ali Musseb. 1996CASomali 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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 731 | #12,156 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 638 | #37,492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 396 | #52,383 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 275 | #3,179 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 240 | #6,506 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 227 | #78,326 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 155 | #9,094 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 119 | — |
| SO Somalia | Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists | 2023 | 5 | #49 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Musse mean, and where does it come from?
- mousse (a type of aired pudding) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Musse?
- A machine transcription gives /məss/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Musse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 857 people named Muesse in Mali, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Musse?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 731 people named Musse, about 1 in 290 thousand residents.
- How common is Musse compared with other names?
- In Mali, Musse is the 849th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/musseThe 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, “Musse” — the 849th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.