Espere
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of esperar: (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Espere is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 120K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 1M
- USUnited States≈1 in 18Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)inflection of esperar:
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Espere is found
(measured from records)Espere 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Espere | 22 |
| FR France | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 9 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 18M | listed | Espere | 35 |
| AU Australia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Espere | 2 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Espere is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, first-person singular present subjunctive of esperar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, alternative form of sphere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Espere mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of esperar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Espere?
- Mondonomo estimates about 964 people named Espere in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled espere. After it come France, United States and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Espere?
- Mondonomo estimates about 960 people in the Philippines have Espere as their first surname, about 1 in 120 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Espere?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/espereThe 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, “Espere”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.