Wesén
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Wesén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: being, creature, nature (of sth).
- FIFinland1 in 119K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
- BRBrazil1 in 5.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)
178 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wesen in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany 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)being, creature, nature (of sth)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wesén 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 178 | 1 in 1.9M | 193 | Wesen | 100 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Wesen | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 59 | 1 in 173K | 59 | Wesén | 9 |
| FI Finland | 47 | 1 in 119K | 47 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Wesen | 18 |
| RS Serbia | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Wesen | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Wesen | 1 |
178 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 59 | #11,105 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 47 | #24,238 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 21 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wesén mean, and where does it come from?
- being, creature, nature (of sth) Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- In which country does Wesén have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 178 people named Wesén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wesen.
- Where is Wesén most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wesén is densest in Finland — about 1 in 119 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wesén?
- In the United States, the national register counted 178 people named Wesén in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wesén?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wes%C3%A9nThe 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, “Wesén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.