Bisayas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feminine plural of bisayo
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Bisayas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 250Mfew recordsas Visayas
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 260Kfew recordsas Visayas
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bisayas itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈450 named Visayas, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Visayas in US United States.
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)feminine plural of bisayo
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bisayas is found
(measured from records)Bisayas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 256K | — | Bisayas | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 251M | — | Visayas | 6 |
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). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bisayas mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine plural of bisayo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bisayas?
- Mondonomo estimates about 452 people named Visayas in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Switzerland and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bisayas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bisayas is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.4 million people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bisayas?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 6 people named Bisayas in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bisayasThe 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, “Bisayas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.