Nesset
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nesset is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Nesseth.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 3.4K
- SESweden1 in 232K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,624 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Nesseth.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nesset 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 1,624 | 1 in 3.4K | 1.6K | Nesset | 23 |
| US United States | 201 | 1 in 1.7M | 214 | Nesset | 116 |
| SE Sweden | 44 | 1 in 232K | 44 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Nesset | 8 |
| BB Barbados | — | — | — | Nesset | 1 |
1,624 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Nesset is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xto, spell, magical operation
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)
- Kåre Nessetb. 1905NONorwegian political prisoner (b. 1905)
- Martin Bugge Nessetb. 1909NONorwegian athletics competitor
- Arnfinn Nessetb. 1936NONorwegian nurse and serial killer (1936–2025)
- Vegar Leirvik Nessetb. 1974NONorwegian singer
- Petter Nessetb. 1974NObadminton player
- Elisabeth Mørland Nessetb. 1982NONorwegian drummer
- Ole Andreas Nessetb. 1988NOassociation football player
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Nesset mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Nesseth. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Nesset have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Nesset, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nesset.
- Where is Nesset most common?
- Nesset is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nesset?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,624 people named Nesset, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nessetThe 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, “Nesset”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.