Kiisa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a small box or chest with a lid
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kiisa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 232K(measured from records)
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 232K (inferred from the name graph)
24 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a small box or chest with a lid
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kiisa 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.
24 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register; 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)
Kiisa 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 alw, pocket
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)
- Endel Kiisab. 1937EEEstonian motorcycle rider (1937–2024)
- Ants Kiisab. 1969EEEstonian athletics competitor and coach (born 1969)
- Ats Kiisab. 1995EEEstonian athletics competitor (born 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 55 | #1,697 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 48 | #2,037 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 24 | #40,587 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #88,380 |
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 Kiisa mean, and where does it come from?
- a small box or chest with a lid Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kiisa have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 24 people named Kiisa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kiisa most common?
- Kiisa is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 232 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kiisa?
- In Finland, the national register counted 24 people named Kiisa, about 1 in 232 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kiisa?
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/kiisaThe 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, “Kiisa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.