Ayissi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɑjissi/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Ayissi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BJBenin≈1 in 62K
- FRFrance≈1 in 350K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ayissi
- Swahili:/ɑjissi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Ayissi is found
(measured from records)Ayissi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #64 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Ayissi | 27 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 1 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 352K | — | Ayissi | 114 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 505K | — | Ayissi | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | — | 2 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Assemblee Nationale du Benin — sitting-MP roster, 9eme legislature (2023-2028). 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)- Henri Eyebe Ayissib. 1955CMCameroonian politician
- Imane Ayissib. 1968CMCameroonian model, Fashion designer
- Marie-Frédérique Ayissib. 1982FRFrench basketball player (born 1982)
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ayissi?
- In Swahili /ɑjissi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ayissi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Ayissi in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayissi. After it come Benin, France, Belgium and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ayissi?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 23 people named Ayissi in 2024, about 1 in 365 thousand residents.
- How common is Ayissi compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Ayissi is the 64th most common surname of 27,213 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ayissiThe 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, “Ayissi” — the 64th most common surname in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.