Muse
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature; bearers 68
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mjuz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 26K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 34K
- SOSomalia≈1 in 3K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 389 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
12,571 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature; bearers 68.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Muse, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muse 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 12,571 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Muse | 389 |
| SO Somalia | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 13 | — | 11 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Muse | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Muse | 112 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Muse | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 650 | 1 in 16K | 650 | Muse | 21 |
| NO Norway | 532 | 1 in 10K | 532 | — | 16 |
| HR Croatia | 200 | 1 in 21K | 200 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 172 | 1 in 20K | 172 | — | — |
12,571 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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)
Muse is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, nickname for a dissolute person, from Old French muse ‘amusement’, ‘dissipation’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A source of inspiration.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, one of nine Greek inspirational
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, nymphs
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Spanish, only used in se muse, third-person singular present indicative of musirse
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)
- Clarence Museb. 1889USAmerican actor and director (1889–1979)
- Kenneth Museb. 1910USAmerican animator
- Nadine Museb. 1950FRFrench sound editor, sound designer and film editor
- C. Anthony Museb. 1958USAmerican politician
- Spencer V Museb. 1966USresearcher
- Alexander Museb. 1972USAmerican blogger
- Arizona Museb. 1988USAmerican model
- Tanner Museb. 1996USAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Trey Museb. 1999USAmerican soccer player
- Morley MuseNGNigerian-born renewable energy engineer
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 47 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Muse mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature; bearers 68. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Muse?
- A machine transcription gives /mjuz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Muse have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Muse, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muse.
- How common is the name Muse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,571 people named Muse in 2010, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Muse?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/museThe 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, “Muse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.