Musson

Musson is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• habitational name from Mousson in Meuse-et-Moselle, named with the Latin personal name MonHus + the suffix -onem, or alternatively, with Latin mons ‘mountain’ -l- the suffix -ionem.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• of uncertain origin, ostensibly a patronymic, though Reaney believes it to be a nickname from Anglo-Norman French muisson ‘sparrow’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• nickname from Old French moisson, mousson, ‘sparrow’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• variant of Musset (see Mussett 1).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

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.

• Raoul le Boucherb. 1883FRnot in their usual nameFrench cyclist (1883-1907)
• Francis Mussonb. 1894GBcricketer (1894-1962)
• Geoffrey Mussonb. 1910GBBritish Army general
• Rowland Mussonb. 1912GBEnglish cricketer (1912-1943)
• Ñāṇavīrab. 1920GBnot in their usual nameBritish Buddhist monk and author (1920–1965)
• Chick Mussonb. 1920GBEnglish footballer (1920-1955)
• Bernard Mussonb. 1925FRFrench actor (1925–2010)
• Karen Mussonb. 1967NZcricketer
• Jayson Mussonb. 1977USAfrican American artist (born 1977)
• Dalan MussonUSAmerican screenwriter

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Musson mean, and where does it come from?

from AFr muisson ‘sparrow’; first attested Robert Mussun’ Hy 2 DC (L) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.

How do you pronounce Musson?

A machine transcription gives /ˈməsən/ (IPA) for English.

In which country does Musson have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Musson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled musson.

Where is Musson most common?

Musson is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 267 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Musson?

In the United States, the national register counted 1,244 people named Musson in 2010, about 1 in 267 thousand residents.