Espo

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/zpoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Espo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Old Norse given name Æsbiorn, Esbiorn.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 136K
  • USUnited States≈1 in 2.6M

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈460 people, est.

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From the Old Norse given name Æsbiorn, Esbiorn.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Espo 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.

Where Espo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈460 est.≈1 in 136K—Espo4
FI Finland4571 in 12K457Espo8
US United States≈130 est.≈1 in 2.6MlistedEspo12
ES Spain121 in 4.2M12—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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Espo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Finland

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Espò, Espó

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French

    Also written Espó, Espô, Espò

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Espò

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Espo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, Espoo (a city in Finland)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, clipping of Esperanto

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In io, Esperanto

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Somijā (Espo), Ūsimā reģionā, Helsinku piepilsēta, 261000 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

  • Jesse Espob. 1995FIFinnish ice hockey player (born 1995)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Espo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—457#3,729
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—229—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12#109,635
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 Espo mean, and where does it come from?
From the Old Norse given name Æsbiorn, Esbiorn. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Espo?
A machine transcription gives /zpoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Espo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 458 people named Espo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled espo.
Where is Espo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Espo is densest in Finland — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Espo?
In Finland, the national register counted 457 people named Espo, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.

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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, “Espo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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