Temesgen
given name · Amharic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Temesgen is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Amharic and , written in the Latin script.
- ETEthiopia1 in 882◐
- SESweden1 in 27K
- ZASouth Africa1 in 169K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈987 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 96 ●
- 1 in 27K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
4.6K records
Reference-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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 across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #8 | 4,402 | 3K rec. | — | listed | Temesgen | 38 |
| US United States | — | 556 | 810 rec. | 1 in 598K | 556 | Temesgen | 96 |
| SE Sweden | — | 376△ | 93 rec. | 1 in 27K | 376 | Temesgen | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 201 | 221 rec. | — | — | Temesgen | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 98 | 60 rec. | — | — | Temesgen | 22 |
| NO Norway | — | 50 | 44 rec. | — | 310 | Temesgen | 15 |
| CA Canada | — | 47 | 52 rec. | — | 3 | Temesgen | 17 |
| IL Israel | — | 38 | 49 rec. | — | — | Temesgen | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 31 | 37 rec. | — | 46 | Temesgen | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 28 | — | 1 in 210K | 28 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 12 | — | 1 in 3.2M | 12 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 10 | 107 rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | Temesgen | 8 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Amharic3.6K33%
- 2.8K26%
- English1.8K17%
- German3203%
- Norwegian Bokmål3103%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Amharic | 3,571 | 33% |
| 2,785 | 26% | |
| English | 1,791 | 17% |
| German | 320 | 3% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 310 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 21 |
| 2000 | 23 |
| 2001 | 23 |
| 2002 | 24 |
| 2003 | 25 |
| 2004 | 24 |
| 2005 | 26 |
| 2006 | 29 |
| 2007 | 36 |
| 2008 | 43 |
| 2009 | 45 |
| 2010 | 47 |
| 2011 | 55 |
| 2012 | 59 |
| 2013 | 69 |
| 2014 | 79 |
| 2015 | 104 |
| 2016 | 133 |
| 2017 | 152 |
| 2018 | 162 |
| 2019 | 175 |
| 2020 | 178 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Temesgen Desalegnb. 1901ETEthiopian journalist
- Temesgen Burub. 1994ETEthiopian cyclist
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 26 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 556 | #18,929 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 509 | #45,303 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 376 | #3,368 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 310 | #3,468 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 241 | #79,075 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 178 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 175 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 162 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 152 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 133 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 112 | #13,875 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 104 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 78 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Temesgen?
- We estimate roughly 987 people bear Temesgen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Temesgen have the most bearers?
- Temesgen is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled temesgen.
- How common is Temesgen compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Temesgen is the 8th most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
- Is Temesgen a male or female name?
- Temesgen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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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.
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, “Temesgen” — the 8th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.