Musetta
La bohème is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri Murger. The story is set in Paris around 1830 and shows the Bohemian lifestyle of a poor seamstress and her artist friends.
Meaning & Origin of Musetta
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
La bohème is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri Murger. The story is set in Paris around 1830 and shows the Bohemian lifestyle of a poor seamstress and her artist friends.
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The Story of Musetta
The earliest SSA record of Musetta as a baby girl name dates back to 1915, when 7 babies received it. 1924 was its biggest year on record, with 8 newborns named Musetta — #3,665 in the national rankings. About 70% of every Musetta on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Musetta last appeared in the published SSA data in 1929, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 40 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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About the name Musetta
Musetta is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1915 and has accumulated 40 births in the dataset. Musetta's peak popularity came in 1924 when it ranked #3,665. Use the chart and map above to compare Musetta's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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