Record Atlas
France · Belgium · United States of America · Spain · Slovenia

Misson

Misson. Attested in France, Belgium, United States of America, Spain, Slovenia, borne by about 911 people in the registers this map holds.

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

MyssonMisonMiszon

What Wiktionary says this name is

Copied from the surname template on Wiktionary, not worked out here, and not from its etymology prose. Anyone may edit it; the page and the revision it was read at are linked below.

  • Old English what the English entry says it is from
  • English recorded as a surname in these languages

    A language here is the language of the NAME, not a country a family came from — the same caveat the Wikidata section carries, and worth repeating rather than assumed read.

Misson on Wiktionary ↗ — read at revision 80556539. Text from Wiktionary, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

It is also the name of a place

1 place drawn, the largest being MissonMisson — 745
Where those places are. A dot is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Misson United Kingdom pop. 745

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 5 countries: France, Belgium, United States of America, Spain, SloveniaSlovenia — 22 peopleSpain — 24 peopleUnited States of America — 174 peopleBelgium — 263 peopleFrance — 428 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. Blank is not absence. This draws the 5 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.
Belgium, by commune. 263 people in 26 of Belgium's 565 communes, counted by Statbel. The biggest is Namen with 35. This is the only country here that can be drawn this way — every other register counts a country and stops, so a blank elsewhere is a gap in what states publish, not in the name.
26 places drawn, the largest being Namen, Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Sambreville, Charleroi, Marche-en-Famenne, Ciney, Eigenbrakel, Andenne, Doornik, MettetWalcourt — 5Florennes — 5Fosses-la-Ville — 5Eghezée — 5Assesse — 5Gerpinnes — 5Walhain — 5Rixensart — 5Gembloux — 6Sombreffe — 6Dinant — 6Sainte-Ode — 6Châtelet — 6Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe — 6Fernelmont — 8Profondeville — 8Mettet — 8Doornik — 8Andenne — 9Eigenbrakel — 11Ciney — 12Marche-en-Famenne — 12Charleroi — 17Sambreville — 29Jemeppe-sur-Sambre — 30Namen — 35

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

France

428 Borne — a state counted them — Fichier des noms de famille 1891–2000 (INSEE, fichier national).

Whose archive to write to

30 of 1,513 volumes held for France overlap the 1650s — the decades Misson is attested here. None is known to name Misson: a volume overlapping these years is a document from the right place and time, not a confirmed match. Worth an afternoon.

Belgium

263 Borne — a state counted them — Family names by municipality, 1 January 2026 (Statbel, TA_POP_LST_2026).

Whose archive to write to

4,344 of 24,426 volumes held for Belgium overlap the 1690s and 1880s — the decades Misson is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Misson. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records, Cemeteries and burials, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for Belgium →

United States of America

174 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census; Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2000 Census.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Misson in United States of America, so it cannot narrow United States of America's 528,875 volumes by date — see United States of America's own page for all of it.

Spain

24 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

1,787 of 35,936 volumes held for Spain overlap the 1720s — the decades Misson is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Misson. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Probate, land and notarial, Cemeteries and burials. See everything this atlas holds for Spain →

Slovenia

22 Borne — a state counted them — Family names, Slovenia, 2026 (SURS tables 05X1015S–05X1018S).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Misson in Slovenia, so it cannot narrow Slovenia's 1,585 volumes by date — see Slovenia's own page for all of it.

When it was being born, in France

INSEE counts births by surname and decade from the état civil, 1891 to 2000 — the only dated evidence in this dataset. A name that starts at zero and climbs arrived; a name that falls to nothing left, died out, or emigrated, and the decade it stops is the decade to stop searching. It counts births registered in France, so a family that emigrated in 1900 simply stops appearing, which is information rather than a defect.

  • 1891–1900 39
  • 1901–1910 37
  • 1911–1920 31
  • 1921–1930 61
  • 1931–1940 39
  • 1941–1950 37
  • 1951–1960 64
  • 1961–1970 31
  • 1971–1980 27
  • 1981–1990 37
  • 1991–2000 25

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

France
Belgium
United States of America
Slovenia
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …

No record region is drawn yet for Spain — which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about that country.

Find Misson on the map →

The surname dataset · CC0, and downloadable