Heße
surname · Latin script
Heße is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.1Kas Hesse(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 43Kas Hesse
- USUnited States1 in 55Kas Hesse
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Heße itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 329 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 named Hesse, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est., as Hesse
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hesse in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 5 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heße 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #145 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | listed | Hesse | 187 |
| US United States | — | 6,084as Hesse | 1 in 55K | 6.1K | Hesse | 329 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 164 | — | 4 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Hesse | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 74K | listed | Hesse | 91 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Hesse | 95 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 405as Hesse | 1 in 43K | 405 | Hesse | 30 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 287as Hesse | 1 in 29K | 287 | Hesse | 36 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Hesse | 32 |
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; the dfa-band-4 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Martin Heßeb. 1933DEGerman politician (SED)
- Stefan Heßeb. 1966DEGerman prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; Archbishop of Hamburg
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Heße have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Hesse in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Heße?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,084 people named Hesse in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Heße compared with other names?
- In Germany, Heße is the 145th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Heße?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/he%C3%9FeThe 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, “Heße” — the 145th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.