Nese
given name · Latin script
Meaning: possibly from a short form of a habitational name formed with the suffix -ese, such as Bolognese
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/nese/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nese is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 81K
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈57,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Neşe in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, CY Cyprus and 2 more.
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)possibly from a short form of a habitational name formed with the suffix -ese, such as Bolognese.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nese 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #409 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | register #96 | Neşe | 82 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Neşe | 71 |
| CY Cyprus | #249 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Neşe | 10 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 11 | Neşe | 10 |
| US United States | — | 156 | 1 in 2.1M | 376 | Nese | 154 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 48 | Neşe | 8 |
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 2010; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Nese 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 Czech, third-person singular present indicative of nést
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, third-person singular present of nesti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cst, green, blue
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, leveled to the ground by the flood
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to do business
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)- Nese Erdokb. 1940TRTurkish artist (born 1940)
- Neşe Karaböcekb. 1947TRTurkish singer (born 1947)
- Neşe Erçetinb. 1954TRTurkish actor and director (1954–2005)
- Neşe Atikb. 1954TRTurkish archaeologist (born 1954)
- Neşe Yaşınb. 1959CYTurkish Cypriot poet and author
- Neşe Erberkb. 1964TRTurkish businessperson (born 1964)
- Nse Ikpe Etimb. 1974NGnot in their usual nameNigerian actress
- Neşe Şensoy Yıldızb. 1974TRTurkish judoka (born 1974)
- Neşe Baykentb. 1975TRTurkish actor (born 1975)
- Zarab. 1976TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer (born 1976)
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)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 376 | #54,752 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 367 | #52,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 363 | #60,024 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 48 | #19,268 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Nese mean, and where does it come from?
- possibly from a short form of a habitational name formed with the suffix -ese, such as Bolognese. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nese?
- A machine transcription gives /nese/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Nese a male or female name?
- Nese is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Nese have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 thousand people named Nese in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neşe.
- How common is the name Nese?
- In the United States, the national register counted 156 people named Nese in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Nese compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Nese is the 409th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neseThe 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, “Nese” — the 409th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.