Muus
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 55K
- NLNetherlands1 in 146K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Muus | 47 |
| US United States | 151 | 1 in 2.2M | 171 | Muus | 98 |
| NL Netherlands | 118 | 1 in 146K | 118 | Muus | 15 |
| DK Denmark | 107 | 1 in 55K | 107 | Muus | 31 |
| IE Ireland | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Muus | 1 |
| NO Norway | 20 | 1 in 273K | 20 | Muus | 9 |
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)
Muus is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nds (Germany), mouse, Mus musculus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In li, mouse (animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Somali, banana
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tsi, moose
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, mouse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-ecg, moss
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)
- Didrik Muusb. 1633NONorwegian painter (1633-1706)
- Christian Muusb. 1656NONorwegian priest
- Abraham Falk Muusb. 1789NONorwegian politician (1789-1866)
- Bernt Julius Muusb. 1832NOAmerican clergy
- Rudolf Muusb. 1862NONorwegian writer (1862-1935)
- Flemming Muusb. 1907DKDanish resistance member (1907-1982)
- Jane Muusb. 1919DKDanish artist (1919-2007)
- Varinka Wichfeld Muusb. 1922DKDanish resistance fighter (1922-2002)
- Niels Muusb. 1958USDanish pianist
- Lykele Muusb. 1987BEDutch actor
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 16 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 171 | #109,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 151 | #115,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 135 | #118,954 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 118 | #16,654 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 107 | #5,076 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #42,445 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Muus?
- A machine transcription gives /məəs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Muus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 352 people named Muus in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muus.
- Where is Muus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Muus is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 55 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Muus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 151 people named Muus in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Muus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muusThe 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, “Muus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.