Ensslin

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Ensslin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 106K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 525K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M

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 Ensslin 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)

≈200 named Enßlin, est.

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 106K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Ensslin 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 Ensslin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈200 est.≈1 in 405K—Ensslin47
US United States1711 in 1.9M175Ensslin13
BR Brazil711 in 3M71——
UY Uruguay321 in 106K32——
CH Switzerland161 in 525K16Ensslin11

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Ensslin is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa

    Also written Enslin, Энслин

25 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019201940196019802000Walter Ensslin, b. 1904Helmut Ensslin, b. 1909Christiane Ensslin, b. 1939Gudrun Ensslin, b. 1940Felix Ensslin, b. 1967Federico Ensslin, b. 1982

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 Ensslin,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Ensslin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020175#108,023
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010171#104,602
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000168#99,725
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—71#81,629
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—32—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202416#43,070
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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

How do you pronounce Ensslin?
A machine transcription gives /ənzsɫɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Ensslin have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 198 people named Enßlin in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ensslin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ensslin is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 106 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ensslin?
In the United States, the national register counted 171 people named Ensslin in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million 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, “Ensslin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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