Isensee
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Isensee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from Isensee, a place near Stade in Lower Saxony.
- FIFinland1 in 186K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 489K
- USUnited States1 in 736K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
452 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from Isensee, a place near Stade in Lower Saxony.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Isensee 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 452 | 1 in 736K | 452 | Isensee | 78 |
| BR Brazil | 433 | 1 in 489K | 433 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 5 | 1 in 10M | 5 | Isensee | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | Isensee | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 2 | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | — | 3 |
452 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Isensee 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 German, Herkunftsname zu Isensee/Isensee; die Plate zeigt Wechsel von i/e und ei im Stammvokal.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, from ON Stade
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Willy Isenseeb. 1898DEGerman politician
- Ada Isenseeb. 1944DEGerman stained glass artist
- Ingrid Isenseeb. 1974CLChilean actor
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 452 | #47,006 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 452 | #44,738 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 433 | #19,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 430 | #52,161 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,756 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5 | #168,693 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #70,668 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Isensee mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Isensee, a place near Stade in Lower Saxony. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Isensee have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 452 people named Isensee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled isensee.
- Where is Isensee most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Isensee is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Isensee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 452 people named Isensee in 2010, about 1 in 736 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/isenseeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Isensee”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.