Esho
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Aramaic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zhoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Esho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 635K
- MTMalta≈1 in 5.4K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malta, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Aramaic.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esho 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Esho | 50 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Esho | 6 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Esho | 14 |
| US United States | — | 524 | 1 in 635K | 841 | Esho | 140 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Esho | 60 |
| SE Sweden | — | 148 | 1 in 69K | 148 | Esho | 6 |
| MT Malta | #694 | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Esho | 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Pascal Esho Wardab. 1961IQAssyrian Iraqi politician
- Tijion Eshob. 1981GBBritish aesthetic doctor
- Maxie Eshob. 1991USAmerican basketball player (born 1991)
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 85 | #9,541 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Esho mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Aramaic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Esho?
- A machine transcription gives /zhoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Esho have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Esho in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esho.
- How common is the name Esho?
- In the United States, the national register counted 524 people named Esho in 2010, about 1 in 635 thousand residents.
- How common is Esho compared with other names?
- In Malta, Esho is the 694th most common surname of 5,132 surnames 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/eshoThe 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, “Esho” — the 694th most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.