Issei
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪseɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Issei is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 10M
- PLPoland1 in 13M
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
4 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Issei 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.
4 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); 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)
Issei is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A member of the first generation of Japanese immigrants to North America, South America, or Australia.
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)
- Yamamoto Isseib. 1889JPJapanese astronomer (1889-1959)
- Issei Tanakab. 1932JPJapanese writer (1932 or 1933 – 2025)
- Issey Miyakeb. 1938JPnot in their usual nameJapanese fashion designer (1938−2022)
- Issei Sudab. 1940JPJapanese photographer (1940–2019)
- Issei Kitagawab. 1942JPJapanese politician
- Issei Sagawab. 1949JPJapanese author, murderer (1949-2022)
- Issei Tajimab. 1962JPJapanese politician (1962-)
- Issei Miyazakib. 1971JPJapanese voice actor
- Issey Takahashib. 1980JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor
- Issei Moritab. 1989JPJapanese baseball player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #11,543 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #21,840 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #25,677 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #67,037 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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
- How do you pronounce Issei?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪseɪ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Issei a male or female name?
- Issei is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Issei have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 4 people named Issei, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Issei most common?
- Issei is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Issei?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 4 people named Issei, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Issei?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/isseiThe 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, “Issei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.