Rese

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Rese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: alternative form of rise (“troll, giant”).

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 33K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 227K
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 363K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈350 people, est.

Sources
94 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

alternative form of rise (“troll, giant”)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rese 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.

Where Rese is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈350 est.≈1 in 227KlistedRese62
NO Norway1641 in 33K164Rese12
US United States1241 in 2.7M136Rese94
BR Brazil1131 in 1.9M113—2
IT Italy≈94 est.≈1 in 661KlistedRese10
SE Sweden121 in 850K12—1
JM Jamaica≈8 est.≈1 in 363K—Rese1

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 2000; the dfa-band-5 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rese is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Reşe, Resé, Rèse

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, Belgium, United States

    Also written Rèse, Reşe, Rése, Rêse, ́rèse

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Rèse, Reşê

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Syria

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Reşe, Rèse

  • Swahili name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rése

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Rese is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In enm, alternative form of reysen (“to raise”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pms, to govern, to rule

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In sc, kind, type, ilk

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In chk, they do not

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, giant

    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)

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 21 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Rese
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—164#9,614
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000136#118,236
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010124#135,593
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—113#57,790
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12#34,600
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5———
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • 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 Rese mean, and where does it come from?
alternative form of rise (“troll, giant”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Rese have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 353 people named Rese in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rese.
Where is Rese most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rese is densest in Norway — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rese?
In Norway, the national register counted 164 people named Rese, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Rese?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rese

The same 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), 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, “Rese”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Rese parses inside a full name →