Souris
loc · Latin script
Meaning: river, Manitoba
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Souris is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 52K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 75K
- GRGreece≈1 in 380K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- 1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
≈900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Σουρης in GR Greece.
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)river, Manitoba
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Souris 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 75 | — | 168 |
| US United States | 227 | 1 in 1.5M | 227 | — | 35 |
| BE Belgium | 226 | 1 in 52K | 226 | — | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 953K | 81 | — | 9 |
| GR Greece | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 380K | 1 | Σουρης | 18 |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)Souris is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, mouse (rodent)
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)- André Sourisb. 1899BEBelgian composer (1899–1970)
- Léo Sourisb. 1911BEBelgian composer, arranger, planner and conductor (1911-1990)
- George Sourisb. 1949AUNew South Wales politician
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 227 | #82,908 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 226 | #7,474 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 222 | #89,563 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 218 | #80,812 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 201 | #8,963 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 121 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 116 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 115 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 108 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 105 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 88 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Souris mean, and where does it come from?
- river, Manitoba Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Souris have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 900 people named Souris in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Souris most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Souris is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 52 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Souris?
- In the United States, the national register counted 227 people named Souris in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sourisThe 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, “Souris”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.