Musset
surname · Latin script
Meaning: minor places named with a dim (The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/musset/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Musset is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- VEVenezuela
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
How to pronounce Musset
- Spanish:/musset/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)minor places named with a dim. form of OF musse hid¬ ing-place, ambush (from musser, mucier to hide, of Gaul, origin). m(o)uto(u)n sheep (OF mouton, probably of Gaul, origin; cf. Bret, maout sheep). Var.: Motton. Dims.: Fr.: Moutonneau, Moutonnet, Mout(h)enet, Mouthenot. Vars.: Musson, Mussot. Muzaev see Moses Dim.: Mussillon.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Musset 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 English, Alfred de, French writer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latin, third-person singular present active subjunctive of mussō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, pjesnik, pripovjedač i dramski pisac francuskog romantizma; pjesnik mladosti, fantazije i strasti; u najboljim djelima uspijevao je ispreplesti idealizam s razočaranjima, duhovitost s elokvencijom, romantizam s klasicizmom
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Lucien Mussetb. 1922FRFrench historian (1922–2004)
- Régis Mussetb. 1953FRFrench film director
- Alain Mussetb. 1959FRFrench geographer
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Musset come from?
- minor places named with a dim. form of OF musse hid¬ ing-place, ambush (from musser, mucier to hide, of Gaul, origin). m(o)uto(u)n sheep (OF mouton, probably of Gaul, origin; cf. Bret, maout sheep). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Musset?
- In Spanish /musset/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Musset mean?
- Recorded meaning: minor places named with a dim.
- In which country does Musset have the most bearers?
- Musset is most frequently recorded in France.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Musset”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.