Hesson
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hesson is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nauru it is the 5th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: unexplained.
- USUnited States1 in 145K◐
- NRNauru1 in 2.7K
- TNTunisia1 in 27K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.3K ●
- Sources
- 205 ●
- 1 in 145K ◐
across 2 countries
21K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
unexplained.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,295 | 17K rec. | 1 in 145K | 2.3K | Hesson | 205 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 910 | 842 rec. | — | — | Hesson | 45 |
| CA Canada | — | 644 | 624 rec. | — | — | Hesson | 33 |
| AU Australia | — | 359 | 338 rec. | — | — | Hesson | 23 |
| IT Italy | — | 228 | 236 rec. | — | — | Hesson | 2 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 146 | 152 rec. | — | — | Hesson | 1 |
| TN Tunisia | — | 124 | 124 rec. | — | — | Hesson | 2 |
| CN China | — | 86 | 86 rec. | — | — | Hesson | 3 |
| NR Nauru | #5 | 72 | 153 rec. | — | — | Hesson | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | — | 69 | 69 rec. | — | — | Hesson | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | 40 | 41 rec. | — | — | Hesson | 13 |
| AT Austria | — | 17 | 16 rec. | — | — | Hesson | 3 |
Roughly 2.3K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 145K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English21K85%
- Spanish6423%
- 5952%
- French5602%
- Swedish2381%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 20,727 | 85% |
| Spanish | 642 | 3% |
| 595 | 2% | |
| French | 560 | 2% |
| Swedish | 238 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Samuel Rollin Hessonb. 1829CACanadian politician (1829-1915)
- Howard Hessonb. 1891CACanadian ice hockey player
- Marie Setonb. 1910GBnot in their usual nameIndian film critic (1910–1985)
- Audrey Dear Hessonb. 1929CACanadian artist
- Mike Hessonb. 1974NZCricket coach
- Myles Hessonb. 1990GBBritish basketball player (born 1990)
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●
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,291 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,502 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,367 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 6 | #588 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hesson?
- We estimate roughly 2.3 thousand people bear Hesson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hesson have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.3 thousand people bear Hesson in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hesson.
- How common is Hesson compared with other names?
- In Nauru, Hesson is the 5th most common surname of 1,048 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Hesson mean?
- Recorded meaning: unexplained.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hesson” — the 5th most common surname in Nauru. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.