Forename Sister

Worldwide, Sister (Sister , Sista , Сестра , and others...) is a common primarily girly, but very seldom male forename. The first name Sister is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Mauritius, where it is quite a rare female name, Tanzania, and South Africa. In absolute terms, it is commonest in India, Tanzania, and Indonesia. Also, Sister is the last name as well as the forename.

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Sister

name Śisťęř, name Сестра, name น้องหญิง, name Систер, name น้องกัน, name Syster, name Sistah, name Sister, name ซิสเตอร์, name น้องนาง, name Sistren, name น้องสาว, name Suster, name Sïstër, name น้องหื่น, name Ｓister, name Síster, name น้องเจี๊ยบ, name Sista, name น้องนา, name Сістер, name Sistér, name سستر, name الأخت, name น้องสา, name น้องการ, name Sîśtêř

VARIANT	COUNTRY
Sista, Sister	South Africa, Tanzania, Philippines, India, Indonesia
Сестра, Систер	Kazakhstan, Russia

First name Sister in the context

Sister is also a prevalent name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Sister Gudule , the character from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame; sister of Hua Rong , the Water Margin character; sister of Yuanyang , the Dream of the Red Chamber character; sister of Mrs. Liu , the Dream of the Red Chamber character and sister of Fei Pozi's daughter-in-law , the Dream of the Red Chamber character, and in many other works.

Notable namesakes

	sister luisa capomazza Italian painter (b. 1600)
	sister irene American nun, US (b. 1823)
	sister dora 19th century nurse (b. 1832)
	sister margarita of jesus Princess of Mexico, MX (b. 1812)
	sister louise van der schrieck born Nov. 14, 1813, Bergen-op-Zoom, Neth.—died Dec. 3, 1886, Cincinnati, Ohio , U.S.; [Josephine Van der Schrieck], NL (b. 1813)
	sister christine School teacher, and close friend and disciple of Swami Vivekananda, DE (b. 1866)
	sister nivedita Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda, GB (b. 1867)
	sister john gabriel nurse, educator, hospital administrator, US (b. 1874)
	sister agnes berchmans Canadian artist, CA (b. 1879)
	sister mary davidica US (b. 1870)
	sister ignatia American Roman Catholic Religious Sister,, US (b. 1889)
	sister agnes Irish nun and hymn-writer (b. 1850)
	sister st. euphrosine French-Canadian nun; Superior general of Congregation of Notre Dame from 1917 to 1923, CA (b. 1853)
	sister mary xavier British nun (b. 1856)
	sister eucharia Australian nun, AU (b. 1914)

Forename Sister

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Sister

First names said to be same

First name Sister in the context

Notable namesakes