Espo
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/espo/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated · uncertain
Espo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country: 457 people, counted by DVV. Recorded meaning: From the Old Norse given name Æsbiorn, Esbiorn.
- FIFinland1 in 12K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 4.2M
- ITItaly≈1 in 140Kfew records
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
457 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Espo
- Italian:/espo/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Finnish:/ˈespo/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the Old Norse given name Æsbiorn, Esbiorn.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Espo is found
(measured from records)Espo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 457 | 1 in 12K | 457 | Espo | 8 |
| IT Italy | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Espo | 4 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Espo | 12 |
| ES Spain | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | — | 1 |
457 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)Espo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Espoo (a city in Finland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, clipping of Esperanto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, Esperanto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Somijā (Espo), Ūsimā reģionā, Helsinku piepilsēta, 261000 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jesse Espob. 1995FIFinnish ice hockey player (born 1995)
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Espo mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Old Norse given name Æsbiorn, Esbiorn. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Espo?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /espo/; in Finnish /ˈespo/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Espo?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 457 people named Espo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled espo. After it come Italy, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Espo most common?
- Espo is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Espo?
- In Finland, the national register counted 457 people named Espo, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Espo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/espoThe 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, “Espo” — ranked 3729th in Finland (DVV). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.