Agbessi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/agbsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Agbessi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Togo than in any other country.
- TGTogo≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- BJBenin≈1 in 11K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 468K
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.
- Togo (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Agbessi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TG Togo | #196 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 2 | Agbessi | 12 |
| BJ Benin | #192 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Agbessi | 15 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Agbessi | 12 |
| FR France | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 570K | 20 | Agbessi | 88 |
| US United States | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 32M | listed | Agbessi | 16 |
| BE Belgium | — | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | Agbessi | 10 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Elisabeth Balleyb. 1941BJnot in their usual nameBeninois journalist
- Sonya Agbessib. 1972BJBenin athlete
- Ahowanou Anicet AgbessiBJPhD Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies
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 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #93,250 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #12 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Agbessi?
- A machine transcription gives /agbsi/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Agbessi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Agbessi in Togo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agbessi.
- How common is the name Agbessi?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 6 people named Agbessi in 2008, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Agbessi compared with other names?
- In Togo, Agbessi is the 196th most common surname of 2,392 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Agbessi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agbessiThe 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, “Agbessi” — the 196th most common surname in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.