Bisimwa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Things that are enjoyed
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ɓisimwɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bisimwa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 152K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 419K
- SESweden1 in 680K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 152K (inferred from the name graph)
36 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Things that are enjoyed.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bisimwa 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.
36 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 36 | #32,219 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 15 | #31,039 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #30,308 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #70,854 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028) | 2026 | 1 | #104 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Bisimwa mean, and where does it come from?
- Things that are enjoyed. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Bisimwa?
- A machine transcription gives /ɓisimwɑ/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Bisimwa have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 36 people named Bisimwa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bisimwa most common?
- Bisimwa is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 152 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bisimwa?
- In Norway, the national register counted 36 people named Bisimwa, about 1 in 152 thousand 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/bisimwaThe 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, “Bisimwa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.