Gessa
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɪzsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gessa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Perhaps a variant of Chessa.
- ITItaly≈1 in 82K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 807K
- FRFrance≈1 in 870K
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)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)
≈760 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Perhaps a variant of Chessa.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gessa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 82K | listed | Gessa | 17 |
| FR France | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 870K | 10 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 62 | 1 in 807K | 62 | Gessa | 23 |
| US United States | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 6M | listed | Gessa | 51 |
| IN India | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 51M | 1 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
- Gian Luigi Gessab. 1932ITProfessor of Neuropsychopharmacology
- Cecilia Gessab. 1977ESSpanish director and producer
- Andrea Gessab. 1980ITItalian footballer
- Ester GessaITItalian librarian
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1973 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1963 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1977 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1976 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1959 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1982 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1980 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1978 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1971 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1968 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1956 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1946 | 2 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- 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 Gessa mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps a variant of Chessa. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Gessa?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɪzsə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gessa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 763 people named Gessa in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gessa.
- How common is the name Gessa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 62 people named Gessa, about 1 in 807 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gessa?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gessaThe 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, “Gessa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.