Nes
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from ahd. ginesan 'recover' and nerjan 'heal, preserve life'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nes is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 2K(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 27K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 36K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
2,794 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nës in DZ Algeria, MA Morocco.
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(measured from records)
from ahd. ginesan 'recover' and nerjan 'heal, preserve life'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 2,794 | 1 in 2K | 2.8K | — | 31 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Nës | 8 |
| US United States | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 5 | Nes | 133 |
| BR Brazil | 245 | 1 in 864K | 245 | — | — |
| IL Israel | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Nes | 4 |
| MA Morocco | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Nës | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 138 | 1 in 125K | 138 | Nes | 61 |
2,794 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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)
Nes 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 fro, alternative spelling of nés (“nose”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, a headland, a cape, a ness projecting to the sea or lake, a promontory
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active subjunctive of nō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, because, since (expresses the reason for an action)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, a headland (coastal land that juts into the sea)
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)
- Henry Nesb. 1799USAmerican politician
- Hendrik Marinus van Nesb. 1862NLDutch theologian (1862–1946)
- Charles M. Nes Jr.b. 1906USAmerican architect (1907-1989)
- Otto Nesb. 1920NONorwegian broadcaster (1920-2014)
- Oddvar Nesb. 1938NONorwegian linguist (1938-2016)
- Ingolf F. Nesb. 1943NONorwegian scientist
- Janne Nesb. 1954NONorwegian illustrator
- Adi Nesb. 1966ILIsraeli photographer (born 1966)
- Jo Inge Nesb. 1972NONorwegian musician and composer
- Silje Nesb. 1980NONorwegian singer
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Nes mean, and where does it come from?
- from ahd. ginesan 'recover' and nerjan 'heal, preserve life' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Nes?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɛs/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Nes have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Nes, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nes most common?
- Nes is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nes?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,794 people named Nes, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nesThe 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, “Nes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.