Esen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sağlıklı, salim, rahat
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/es̪en̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Esen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 51K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 59K
- BEBelgium1 in 87K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
197 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sağlıklı, salim, rahat.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 197 | 1 in 88K | 197 | Esen | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 164 | 1 in 51K | 164 | Esen | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 135 | 1 in 87K | 221 | Esen | 8 |
| US United States | 106 | 1 in 3.1M | 123 | Esen | 80 |
| DK Denmark | 99 | 1 in 59K | 99 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 68 | 1 in 150K | 68 | Esen | 6 |
197 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Esen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Sağlıklı, sağlam, rahat.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary, per-gender-row harvest)
In enm, to comfort (provide comfort, make comfortable)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tmh, tooth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In otk, in good health, sound; safe
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In Turkmen, Aman-esenlik, dynçlyk.Hasan adynyň üýtgän görnüşi.
as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hayri Esenb. 1919TRTurkish actor (1919–1977)
- Evin Esenb. 1949TRTurkish actor (1949–2012)
- Itır Esenb. 1956TRTurkish actor (born 1956)
- Mehmet Esenb. 1958TRTurkish actor (born 1958)
- Aydın Esenb. 1962TRTurkish musician (born 1962)
- Timuçin Esenb. 1973TRTurkish actor (born 1973)
- Arda Esenb. 1975TRTurkish actor (born 1975)
- Barış Esenb. 1986TRTurkish chess player (born 1986)
- Hülya Esenb. 1989TRTurkish tennis player (born 1989)
- Emine Ecem Esenb. 1994TRTurkish association football player (born 1994)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 69 | #6,946 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 67 | #10,049 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #23,984 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 18 | #5,315 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 13 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 8 | #20,463 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 7 | #35,090 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Esen?
- A machine transcription gives /es̪en̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Esen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sağlıklı, salim, rahat.
- In which country does Esen have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 197 people named Esen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esen.
- Where is Esen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Esen is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Esen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 197 people named Esen in 2007, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Esen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/esenThe 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, “Esen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.