Moùssa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Moùssa is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā, “Moses”).
- CMCameroon≈1 in 521(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 1K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 1.7K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 521 (inferred from the name graph)
≈53,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Moussa in FR France, EG Egypt, US United States and 6 more.
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)Borrowed from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā, “Moses”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Moùssa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #4 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 521 | — | Moussa | 34 |
| EG Egypt | #264 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Moussa | 147 |
| SN Senegal | #28 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 73 | Moussa | 71 |
| DZ Algeria | #22 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Moussa | 64 |
| FR France | #179 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 12K | Moussa | 305 |
| TN Tunisia | #44 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Moussa | 53 |
| LY Libya | #84 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Moussa | 25 |
| LB Lebanon | #94 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Moussa | 76 |
| US United States | — | 2,139 | 1 in 156K | 3K | Moussa | 252 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moùssa mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā, “Moses”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Moùssa a male or female name?
- Moùssa is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Moùssa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 53 thousand people named Moùssa in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moussa.
- How common is the name Moùssa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,139 people named Moùssa in 2010, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
- How common is Moùssa compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Moùssa is the 4th most common surname of 27,213 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mo%C3%B9ssaThe 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, “Moùssa” — the 4th most common surname in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.