Mis
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of Military Intelligence Service (United States)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 591K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 7.9K
- HRCroatia1 in 33K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
4,873 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a reduced form of the personal name Amijs, a derivative of Latin amicus ‘friend’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mis is read(measured from records)
Mis is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish51%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mis in Spanish.
- English16%
Initialism of Military Intelligence Service (United States).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.7%
first/second-person singular past historic of mettre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 4,873 | 1 in 7.9K | 2.5K | — | 1 |
| CN China | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Mis | 10 |
| MA Morocco | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Mis | 8 |
| US United States | 563 | 1 in 591K | 563 | Mis | 176 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Mis | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Mis | 17 |
| HR Croatia | 130 | 1 in 33K | 130 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 32 | 1 in 66K | 32 | — | 2 |
4,873 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Mis 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.
from a reduced form of the personal name Amijs, a derivative of Latin amicus ‘friend’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname from the vocabulary word mis ‘mouse’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
perhaps also a nickname from mis ‘bear’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a pet form of the personal name Michal (see Michael).
as a nameDictionary 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dušan Misb. 1926SIresearcher
- Jean-Michel Misb. 1967FRFrench politician
- Nataša Fidler Misb. 1969SIresearcher
- Matija MisSIresearcher
- Matej MisSIresearcher
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 34 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 563 | #39,117 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 526 | #44,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 521 | #39,678 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 32 | #10,294 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18 | #95,983 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #107,062 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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
- Where does the name Mis come from?
- from a reduced form of the personal name Amijs, a derivative of Latin amicus ‘friend’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mis?
- A machine transcription gives /mis/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Mis mean?
- In English, Initialism of Military Intelligence Service (United States).
- In which country does Mis have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Mis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mis most common?
- Mis is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mis?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,873 people named Mis in 2026, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/misThe 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, “Mis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.