Ex
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ex (ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ex is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- MXMexico
- PYParaguay
- NLNetherlands
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ex (ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ex counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | — | Ex | 18 |
| PY Paraguay | — | — | Ex | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 63 | Ex | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | — | Ex | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Ex | 27 |
| US United States | — | 218 | Ex | 125 |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Ex 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 cdo, imet., to have children who become vicious or die early
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Finnish, alternative form of eksä (“ex”) (former partner or spouse)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of ax (“axe”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, Exe (a river in Somerset and Devon, England)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, ex (an ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner)
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)
- Sjarel Exb. 1957NLDutch art historian and museum director (born 1957)
- Luc Exb. 1958NLDutch composer
- Titia Exb. 1959NLvisual artist (born 1959)
- Dee Exb. 1982DEGerman rapper
- Rachel ConnellyUSnot in their usual nameEconomist (Institute of Labor Economics (IZA); Bowdoin College -> Department of Economics)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 218 | #90,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 192 | #89,549 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 177 | #101,737 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 63 | #26,584 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ex mean, and where does it come from?
- ex (ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ex have the most bearers?
- Ex is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled ex.
What do you want to know about Ex?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/exThe 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, “Ex”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.