Tegesete

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Tegesete is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.

  • ETEthiopia≈1 in 610as Tigist(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden1 in 109Kas Tigist
  • NONorway≈1 in 110Kas Tigist

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tegesete itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)

≈220,000 named Tigist, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
125 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 614 (inferred from the name graph)

Ethiopia, est., as Tigist

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ትግስትEthiopic(measured from records)
TigisitLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled ትግስት in ET Ethiopia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Tegesete 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 Tegesete is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia#361≈220,000 est.≈1 in 614listedትግስት40
US United States—1,686as Tigist1 in 197K1.7K—125
SE Sweden—94as Tigist1 in 109K94—15
NO Norway—≈52 est.≈1 in 106K146—10
ES Spain—24as Tigist1 in 2.1M25—7
IS Iceland—1as Tigist1 in 351K1——

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tegesete under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Tegesete have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 215 thousand people named Tigist in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Tegesete?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,686 people named Tigist in 2020, about 1 in 197 thousand residents.
How common is Tegesete compared with other names?
In Ethiopia, Tegesete is the 361st most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.

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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, “Tegesete” — the 361st most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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