Mrs

Name: Mrs: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mrs is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved f.

rarermore common

NGNigeria1 in 197◐
KEKenya1 in 889
BOBolivia1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

: 922K ●
Sources: 243 ●

Meaning & origin●

Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames.

Sources 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mrs is recorded, by country
Country						Most common spelling	Sources
NG Nigeria	#2	370,567	2.4K rec.	—	—	Mrs	45
IN India	—	149,530	27K rec.	—	8	Mrs	105
KE Kenya	#150	32,431	91 rec.	—	—	Mrs	14
GB United Kingdom	#853	16,995	208K rec.	—	—	Mrs	148
US United States	—	13,162	918K rec.	—	—	Mrs	243
MY Malaysia	#589	8,585	8.8K rec.	—	—	Mrs	30
ES Spain	—	7,017	30K rec.	—	—	Mrs	42
BO Bolivia	#22	6,521	14 rec.	—	—	Mrs	6
CA Canada	—	3,684	59K rec.	—	—	Mrs	71
DE Germany	—	3,315	89K rec.	—	—	Mrs	56
AU Australia	—	3,181	65K rec.	—	—	Mrs	86
PK Pakistan	—	2,091	1.3K rec.	—	—	Mrs	41
BD Bangladesh	#731	1,134	563 rec.	—	—	Mrs	37
TH Thailand	—	934	4.5K rec.	—	—	Mrs	66
ID Indonesia	—	549	2.5K rec.	—	—	Mrs	46
SA Saudi Arabia	—	251	0 rec.	—	—	Mrs	19
EG Egypt	—	118	3.6K rec.	—	—	Mrs	19
QA Qatar	—	83	0 rec.	—	—	Mrs	7
AE United Arab Emirates	—	66	3.5K rec.	—	—	Mrs	30
AT Austria	—	57	5.6K rec.	—	—	Mrs	8
GH Ghana	—	46	2.1K rec.	—	—	Mrs	16
SG Singapore	—	45	2.2K rec.	—	—	Mrs	28
JP Japan	—	36	8K rec.	—	—	Mrs	15
NL Netherlands	—	35	39K rec.	—	—	Mrs	23
BE Belgium	—	25	17K rec.	—	—	Mrs	21
ZA South Africa	—	23	1.7M rec.	—	—	Mrs	37
TR Türkiye	—	16	1.6K rec.	—	—	Mrs	9
NZ New Zealand	—	5	31K rec.	—	—	Mrs	30
IT Italy	—	5	35K rec.	—	—	Mrs	21
FI Finland	—	—	5.1K rec.	—	10	—	8
SE Sweden	—	—	—	—	2	—	—
SL Sierra Leone	—	—	—	—	2	—	—

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

English521K52%
Spanish292K29%
Bangla42K4%
Swahili34K3%
Sinhala26K3%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
English	520,582	52%
Spanish	291,950	29%
Bangla	42,135	4%
Swahili	33,956	3%
Sinhala	25,529	3%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mrs is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish given name515K records spelled Mrs9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Bolivia, Spain, United States, Colombia
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Mřš, Mrş, Mŕs, Ḿŕś
Swahili given name309K records spelled Mrs2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Nigeria, India, Kenya, United States
Also written Mr'S
Italian given name63K records spelled Mrs2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Bolivia
Also written Mřś
Swedish given name51K records spelled Mrs7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United Kingdom, Bolivia, India, Spain
Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Also written Mřś, Mrş
Polish given name42K records spelled Mrs2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Bolivia, Spain, United Kingdom, Poland
Also written Mrś

92 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Mrs is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

ISO 639-3 language code for Maragus.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, food containing meat and animal fat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Mežrūpniecības saimniecība
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Evidence●

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Mrs
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	10	#49,730
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	10	#48,928
IN India	Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls	—	8	#141,330
IN India	Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls	—	5	#23,447
IN India	Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls	—	4	#8,718
IN India	Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls	—	3	#5,537
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	2	#60,363
SL Sierra Leone	NEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables	2012	2	#29
SL Sierra Leone	NEC/ECSL — 2012 parliamentary and Local Council nominated candidates	2012	1	#22

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mrs?: Our records include 921,673 bearers of Mrs across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Mrs have the most bearers?: Mrs is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled mrs.
How common is Mrs compared with other names?: In Nigeria, Mrs is the 2nd most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Mrs a male or female name?: Mrs is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Mrs mean?: Recorded meaning: Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved f…

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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Mrs” — the 2nd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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