Eßen
surname · Latin script
Eßen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 39Kas Essén(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 55Kas Essen
- EEEstonia≈1 in 79Kas Essen
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Eßen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 named Essen, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden, as Essén
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Eßen in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Essen in DE Germany, US United States, NL Netherlands and 1 more and Essén in SE Sweden.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Eßen is found
(measured from records)Eßen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Essen | 85 |
| US United States | 440as Essen | 1 in 756K | 482 | Essen | 202 |
| SE Sweden | 259as Essén | 1 in 39K | 259 | Essén | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 504K | — | Essen | 63 |
| NL Netherlands | 118as Essen | 1 in 146K | 118 | Essen | 105 |
| FI Finland | 57as Essén | 1 in 98K | 57 | — | 7 |
| NO Norway | 44as Essen | 1 in 124K | 44 | — | 4 |
| EE Estonia | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 79K | listed | — | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Eßen?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Essen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Sweden, United Kingdom and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Eßen most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Eßen itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Sweden's: the national register counts about 1 in 39 thousand people named Essén.
- How common is the name Eßen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 440 people named Essen in 2010, about 1 in 756 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Eßen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/e%C3%9FenThe 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, “Eßen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.