Mossa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: movement (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈmɔs.sa/(recorded in a dictionary) Italian · from Wiktionary
Mossa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 3.5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 23K
- SYSyria≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Mossa
- Italian:/ˈmɔs.sa/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)movement
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mossa is found
(measured from records)Mossa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #458 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Mossa | 2 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Mossa | 49 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Mossa | 8 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #849 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Mossa | 4 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Mossa | 6 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Mossa | 13 |
| US United States | — | 382 | 1 in 871K | 487 | Mossa | 61 |
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; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)Mossa 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.
Italian; perhaps a habitational name from Mossa in Gorizia province.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Norwegian, a diminutive of the female given names Marie, Margrethe, or or of their variant forms
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, third-person singular indicative present definite of mos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, groove, notch
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)- Gustave Mossab. 1883FR20th century French symbolist painter from Nice (1883–1971)
- Vico Mossab. 1914ITItalian architect
- Vera Mossab. 1964BRBrazilian volleyball player
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mossa mean, and where does it come from?
- movement Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mossa?
- In Italian /ˈmɔs.sa/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mossa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Mossa in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mossa. After it come Egypt, Italy, Congo - Brazzaville and Algeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mossa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 382 people named Mossa in 2010, about 1 in 871 thousand residents.
- How common is Mossa compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Mossa is the 458th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mossaThe 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, “Mossa” — the 458th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.