Esse
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: The name of the Latin-script letter S/s
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Esse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 763K(measured from records)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 5.8K
- ITItaly≈1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Esse is read(measured from records)
Esse is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English45%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Esse in English.
- French20%
The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Esse in Spanish.
- Italian5.6%
The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.; ess
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esse 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 1.9K | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Esse | 28 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Esse | 13 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 65K | listed | Esse | 4 |
| US United States | 436 | 1 in 763K | 461 | Esse | 171 |
| SO Somalia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 1 | — | 3 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Esse | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 6 | — | 3 |
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; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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)
Esse is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, that
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Dutch, a neighbourhood of Zuidplas, South Holland, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, third-person singular feminine of as
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, present active infinitive of sum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Stefania Esseb. 1876PLPolish teacher
- Herb Esseb. 1920AUAustralian rules footballer
- Douglas L. Esseb. 19491949--1992-10-13; דוגלס ל. אסה ; Esse, Douglas L.; אסה, דוגלס ל.
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 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 1.9K | #297 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 461 | #49,315 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 436 | #48,436 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 408 | #48,567 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,290 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 5 | #16,294 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Esse mean, and where does it come from?
- The name of the Latin-script letter S/s. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Esse?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Esse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Esse in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Esse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 436 people named Esse in 2010, about 1 in 763 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Esse?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/esseThe 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, “Esse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.