Sisam
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪsəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sisam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks and Worcs. see Sysum .
- INIndia1 in 26M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26M (inferred from the name graph)
52 people
Reference-verified
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks and Worcs. see Sysum . • Main GB location 1881: Kent and Sussex • Main Irish location 1847–64: Cork 1 Irish: of uncertain origin, recorded in Cork since the 18th century. Perhaps from Ó Siosta, see Cheasty .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sisam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 52 | 1 in 26M | 52 | — | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Sisam | 9 |
| ID Indonesia | — | — | — | Sisam | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Sisam | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 20 | — | — |
52 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sisam is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, third-person plural present indicative of sisar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charles Herschel Sisamb. 1879USAmerican mathematician
- Kenneth Sisamb. 1887GBNew Zealand academic and publisher (1887–1971)
- Peter James Sisamb. 1914GBEnglish photographer and film-maker (1914-2015)
- Celia Sisamb. 1926GBBritish scholar
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 52 | #43,443 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 52 | #34,957 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 42 | #2,376 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 21 | #14,150 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 20 | #90,540 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 17 | #87,617 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #24,562 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Sisam mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks and Worcs. see Sysum . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sisam?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪsəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sisam have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 52 people named Sisam, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sisam most common?
- Sisam is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sisam?
- In India, the national register counted 52 people named Sisam, about 1 in 26 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sisamThe 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, “Sisam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.