Vessey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Vessey, Manche; first attested Robert de Veci 1086 DB (Northamptonshire)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈvɛsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vessey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 548K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 2Mas Vessi
- BRBrazil1 in 2.9Mas Vessi
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vessey 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 548K (inferred from the name graph)
607 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
from Vessey, Manche; first attested Robert de Veci 1086 DB (Northamptonshire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vessey 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 | 607 | 1 in 548K | 642 | Vessey | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 74as Vessi | 1 in 2.9M | 74 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 23as Vessi | 1 in 2M | 23 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 857 | Vessey | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | — | 15 | — | — |
607 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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Vessey 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 English, in La Manche, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Vessius or Vettius (of uncertain origin) + the local suffix -dcum. Var.: Vessie (Scotland). Vester see Silvester
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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)
- Robert S. Vesseyb. 1858USAmerican politician (1858-1929)
- John William Vesseyb. 1922USUnited States Army general (1922-2016)
- Robert Vesseyb. 1961CACanadian politician
- Mark Vesseyb. 1980GBprofessor
- Maggie Vesseyb. 1981USAmerican distance runner
- Denmark Vesseyb. 1984USAmerican rapper
- Tom Vesseyb. 1994NZNew Zealand cyclist
- David William Thomson Vesseyclassical philologist
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 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 857 | #7,474 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 642 | #37,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 633 | #33,933 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 607 | #36,788 |
| US United States | wru 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 Vessey mean, and where does it come from?
- from Vessey, Manche; first attested Robert de Veci 1086 DB (Northamptonshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Vessey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvɛsi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Vessey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 607 people named Vessey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vessey.
- Where is Vessey most common?
- Vessey is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 548 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vessey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 607 people named Vessey in 2010, about 1 in 548 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vesseyThe 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, “Vessey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.