Dessing
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dessing is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script.
- NLNetherlands1 in 64K◐
- DKDenmark1 in 658K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 881K
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Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| US United States | 452 | 44% |
| NL Netherlands | 450 | 43% |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 2% |
| DK Denmark | 20 | 2% |
| PL Poland | 15 | 1% |
≈960 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English49848%
- Western Frisian26125%
- Dutch19118%
- German343%
- Danish202%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 498 | 48% |
| Western Frisian | 261 | 25% |
| Dutch | 191 | 18% |
| German | 34 | 3% |
| Danish | 20 | 2% |
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●
- Christianus Petrus Wilhelmus Dessingb. 1844NLDutch architect (1844–1913)
- Jacobus Petrus Dessingb. 1880NLDutch architect (1880-1966)
- Johan Dessingb. 1965NLDutch politician (born 1965)
- Floortje Dessingb. 1970NLDutch broadcaster
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 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 261 | #7,944 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #36,991 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #46,182 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #194,316 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
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 2026-09-06 data build · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dessing?
- Our records include 960 bearers of Dessing across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Dessing have the most bearers?
- Dessing is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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, “Dessing”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.