The Musse surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 396 people carried this name — #52,383 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 769,200 people counted. That is up 74% from 227 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 279 people named Musse live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 50 people named Musse.
1 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Moselle.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
43 people named Musse live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
392 people named Musse are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Musse,
with a public archive behind them.
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Félix-Joseph Musse 1883–1964 · military personnel -
Malene Müllertz 1949– · designer
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Carlos Musse 1955– · painter
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Matthias Müsse 1966– · actor
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Ricardo Musse Carrasco 1971– · writer
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Ubah Musse 1982– · actor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Musse.
- Muscat 875 · U.S. census
- Muse 12,571 · U.S. census
- Musetti 197 · U.S. census
- Musi 169 · U.S. census
- Musial 1,838 · U.S. census
- Musielak 249 · U.S. census
- Mussi 192 · U.S. census
- Musso 2,794 · U.S. census
- Musson 1,244 · U.S. census
- Mustafa 5,873 · U.S. census
- Mustapha 715 · U.S. census
- Mustin 779 · U.S. census
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