Kissane
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cendant of Ciosdn’, a personal name perhaps derived from a dim
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɪsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kissane is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 304K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.6M
- ESSpain1 in 2.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 304K (inferred from the name graph)
1,094 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
cendant of Ciosdn’, a personal name perhaps derived from a dim. of ceas coracle.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kissane 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 | 1,094 | 1 in 304K | 1.1K | Kissane | 12 |
| ES Spain | 22 | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | 1 |
| MA Morocco | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | — | Kissane | 13 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
1,094 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Kissaneb. 1868IEIrish hurler
- Edward Kissaneb. 1886IEIrish priest and academic
- Eamon Kissaneb. 1899IEIrish politician
- Ruth Kissaneb. 1929USanimator and film director (1929-1990)
- Joseph M. Kissaneb. 1930USearly victim of the COVID-19 pandemic (1930-2020)
- Jim Kissaneb. 1946USAmerican basketball player
- David W. Kissaneb. 1951AUAustralian psychiatrist
- Andy Kissaneb. 1959AUAustralian poet
- Paudie Kissaneb. 1980IEIrish Gaelic football player
- Elise Kissaneb. 1992FRFrench association football player
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,283 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,212 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,637 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #78,991 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 11 | #62,323 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #163,754 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kissane come from?
- cendant of Ciosdn’, a personal name perhaps derived from a dim. of ceas coracle. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Kissane?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɪsən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kissane mean?
- Recorded meaning: cendant of Ciosdn’, a personal name perhaps derived from a dim.
- In which country does Kissane have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kissane, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kissane.
- Where is Kissane most common?
- Kissane is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 304 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kissane?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,094 people named Kissane in 2010, about 1 in 304 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kissaneThe 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, “Kissane”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.