Neese
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a short form of the female personal name Agnes (see Annis)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈniz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 62K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 111K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 17K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a short form of the female personal name Agnes (see Annis).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neese 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Neese | 2 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Neese | 1 |
| US United States | — | 5,335 | 1 in 62K | 5.3K | Neese | 331 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Neese | 68 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Neese | 5 |
| LR Liberia | #325 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Neese | 1 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Neese | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Neese | 1 |
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. 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)
Neese is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Americanized form of German NiES or possibly Kniess (see Knez).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Naois (see McNeese).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In gv, up, upwards (from a low position to a higher one)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hans Neeseb. 1891DEGerman engineer (1891-1961)
- Charles Gelbert Neeseb. 1916USUnited States federal judge
- Paul Neeseb. 1939DEGerman politician (1939-2000)
- Brian Neeseb. 1964USAmerican strength athlete
- Frank Neeseb. 1967DEGerman chemist
- Tim NeeseUSAmerican politician
- Gary NeeseUSAmerican basketball player
- Larry NeeseUScollege basketball player (1967–1967) Pacific
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.3K | #6,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.2K | #6,126 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.8K | #6,803 |
| 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 Neese mean, and where does it come from?
- from a short form of the female personal name Agnes (see Annis). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Neese?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈniz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Neese have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Neese in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neese.
- How common is the name Neese?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,335 people named Neese in 2010, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
- How common is Neese compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Neese is the 325th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neeseThe 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, “Neese” — the 325th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.