Jesson
given name · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from a short form of Jessup, a variant of Joseph (Dictionary of American Family Names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/çesson/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Jesson is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 340Kfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 350Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Jesson
- Spanish:/çesson/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ʒɛsun/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)patronymic from a short form of Jessup, a variant of Joseph.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jesson 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Jesson | 46 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Jesson | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 422 | 1 in 502K | 425 | Jesson | 18 |
| US United States | 234 | 1 in 1.4M | 427 | Jesson | 162 |
| IN India | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 6.7M | — | Jesson | 15 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 346K | — | Jesson | 17 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Jesson | 6 |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 371K | — | Jesson | 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Charles Jessonb. 1862GBBritish politician
- Bruce Jessonb. 1944NZNew Zealand journalist and politician
- Paul Jessonb. 1955NZNew Zealand bicycle racer
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jesson mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from a short form of Jessup, a variant of Joseph. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jesson?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /çesson/; in Portuguese /ʒɛsun/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Jesson?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Jesson in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jesson. After it come Indonesia, Brazil, United States and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Jesson a male or female name?
- Jesson is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and France (INSEE, 1991).
- How common is the name Jesson?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 422 people named Jesson in 2022, about 1 in 502 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jesson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jessonThe 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, “Jesson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.