Riise
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹɪaɪz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Riise is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Norwegian Riise.
- NONorway1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 12K
- SESweden1 in 98K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Norwegian Riise.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Riise 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.
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lauritz Johan Riiseb. 1910NONorwegian politician (1910-1978)
- Rodney Riiseb. 1942NONorwegian ice hockey player (1942-2009)
- Jan Riiseb. 1957SEpolitician and researcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-9224-7101
- Hildegun Riiseb. 1958NONorwegian actress
- Hege Riiseb. 1969NONorwegian football coach (born 1969)
- Anders Riiseb. 1969NONorwegian politician
- Marius Riiseb. 1974NONorwegian handball player
- John Arne Riiseb. 1980NONorwegian association football player
- Bjørn Helge Riiseb. 1983NONorwegian association football player
- Kristian Tonning Riiseb. 1988NONorwegian politician
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 14 sources across 10 countries.
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 Riise mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Norwegian Riise. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Riise?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɪaɪz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Riise have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Riise in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled riise.
- Where is Riise most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Riise is densest in Norway — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Riise?
- In Norway, the national register counted 3,332 people named Riise, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Riise compared with other names?
- In Norway, Riise is the 241st most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Riise?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/riiseThe 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, “Riise” — the 241st most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.