Kiiski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkiiski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kiiski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 292K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kiiski itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,387 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кийски in FI Finland, RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kiiski 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 4,387 | 1 in 1.3K | 4.4K | Кийски | 3 |
| RU Russia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Кийски | 71 |
| SE Sweden | 35 | 1 in 292K | 35 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
4,387 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling kiiski. 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Kiiski 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 izh, synonym of joršši
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)
- Pekka Kiiskib. 1897FIFinnish politician (1897-1976)
- Oiva Kiiskib. 1923FIFinnish playwright
- Kaija Kiiskib. 1949FIFinnish actress
- Tommi Kiiskib. 1966FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Sanna Kiiskib. 1974FIFinnish journalist
- Antti Kiiskib. 1974FIFinnish guitarist
- Lauri Kiiskib. 1980FIFinnish tennis player
- Ruut Kiiskib. 1984FIFinnish choral conductor
- Sini Kiiskib. 1990FIFinnish javelin thrower
- Eemeli Kiiskib. 1991FIFinnish athletics competitor (born 1991)
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.4K | #422 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35 | #16,698 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
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 Kiiski mean, and where does it come from?
- ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kiiski?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkiiski/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Kiiski have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Kiiski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled кийски.
- Where is Kiiski most common?
- Kiiski is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kiiski?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,387 people named Kiiski, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kiiski?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kiiskiThe 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, “Kiiski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.