Bisse

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bisse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: first/third-person singular subjunctive II of beißen.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 126K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.9M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

114 people

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

first/third-person singular subjunctive II of beißen

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bisse 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.

Where Bisse is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1141 in 1.9M114Bisse22
SE Sweden811 in 126K81—4
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7——
IN India71 in 189M7——
US United States——listedBisse6

114 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bisse is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Cameroon, United Kingdom

    Also written Bissè, Bissé, Bïsse

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bissé

  • Swedish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish

    Also written Bissè

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Bişşe

  • Arabic name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Bişşe, Bissè, Bíssè

22 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bisse is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In mdr, break open (as an egg or abscess)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In fro, doe (female deer)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, beer

    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)

1400160018002000James Bisse, b. 1552Philip Bisse, b. 1667Stephen Bisse, b. 1675Thomas Bisse, b. 1675Wilhelm Bisse, b. 1881Johannes Bisse, b. 1935Kevin Bisse, b. 1995

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Bisse
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—114#57,408
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—81#8,548
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—27#17,268
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20247#79,838
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—7#147,518
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Bisse mean, and where does it come from?
first/third-person singular subjunctive II of beißen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Bisse have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 114 people named Bisse, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bisse.
Where is Bisse most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bisse is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 126 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bisse?
In Brazil, the national register counted 114 people named Bisse, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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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, “Bisse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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