Hissa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Forgiveness, pardon
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/isɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hissa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 127K
- QAQatar≈1 in 317K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
468 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Forgiveness, pardon.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hissa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 468 | 1 in 452K | 468 | Hissa | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 383 | 1 in 15K | 383 | Hissa | 5 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 854K | listed | Hissa | 11 |
| US United States | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | listed | Hissa | 87 |
| AR Argentina | — | 74 | 1 in 615K | 74 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 22 | 1 in 464K | 22 | — | 2 |
| QA Qatar | #717 | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 317K | — | Hissa | 46 |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Hissa | 1 |
468 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Hissa 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 French, third-person singular past historic of hisser
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, to hoist (raise with ropes or the like)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, history (school subject)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Uzbek, share, portion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, surprised
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)
- Azzeddine Hissab. 1982MAMoroccan association football player
- Ana Hissab. 1983BRBrazilian journalist and presenter
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 468 | #18,081 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 383 | #4,369 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 182 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 74 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #23,700 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Hissa mean, and where does it come from?
- Forgiveness, pardon. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Hissa?
- A machine transcription gives /isɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Hissa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 468 people named Hissa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hissa.
- Where is Hissa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hissa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hissa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 468 people named Hissa, about 1 in 452 thousand residents.
- How common is Hissa compared with other names?
- In Qatar, Hissa is the 717th most common surname of 15,902 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hissa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hissaThe 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, “Hissa” — the 717th most common surname in Qatar. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.