Lissi

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/lissi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lissi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 80K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 510K

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.

Denmark (measured from records)

1,887 people

Sources
55 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lissi 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.

Where Lissi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark1,8871 in 3.1K1.9K——
SE Sweden1281 in 80K128—1
BR Brazil231 in 9.2M116Lissi33
NL Netherlands151 in 1.2M15——
CR Costa Rica101 in 510K10—4
GT Guatemala≈3 est.≈1 in 6.5M—Lissi9

1,887 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lissi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, United Kingdom

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Lißi, Lïssï, Lïssi, Líssi

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

InformalHola Lissi,Hi Lissi, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Lissi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.9K#256
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)1999184—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2000177—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2001173—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2002168—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2003167—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2004162—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2005159—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2006155—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2007150—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2008142—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2009138—

Reference works 1

  • 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

What does the name Lissi mean, and where does it come from?
a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Lissi?
In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Lissi?
A machine transcription gives /lissi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Lissi a male or female name?
Lissi is a female 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.
In which country does Lissi have the most bearers?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Lissi, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Lissi most common?
Lissi is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lissi?
In Denmark, the national register counted 1,887 people named Lissi, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Lissi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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