Sisik
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sisik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: scale (keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals).
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 11K
- BEBelgium1 in 837K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Şişik in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, DE Germany and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
scale (keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sisik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Şişik | 23 |
| CY Cyprus | #460 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Şişik | 6 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Sisik | 11 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Şişik | 17 |
| PL Poland | — | 34 | 1 in 1.1M | 21 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 14 | 1 in 837K | 14 | Şişik | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Sisik | 3 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sisik is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In reb, turtle shell; bracelet made of turtle shell; fish scale; to skin (as a goat); to debark (a tree)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kaw, peck oneself, scratch oneself (bird looking for lice)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In btx, scales of fish, lizards, etc.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bbc, scales of fish and snakes
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mrw, take out head lice
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 21 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 21 | #87,997 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #59,743 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #117,387 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Sisik mean, and where does it come from?
- scale (keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sisik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Sisik in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled şişik.
- How common is the name Sisik?
- In Poland, the national register counted 34 people named Sisik in 2026, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Sisik compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Sisik is the 460th most common surname of 24,832 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sisik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sisikThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sisik” — the 460th most common surname in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.