Ristic

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ristic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 516(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 6.3K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 116K

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.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈14,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
135 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 516 (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RisticLatin(measured from records)
РистичCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ristić in RS Serbia, HR Croatia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ristic 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.

Where Ristic is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#19≈14,000 est.≈1 in 516listedRistić77
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#77≈3,100 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Ristić19
CH Switzerland—7891 in 11K789Ristic23
DE Germany—≈690 est.≈1 in 116K—Ristic84
HR Croatia#7786731 in 6.3K673Ristić30
SI Slovenia#462≈310 est.≈1 in 6.8K—Ristic13

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ristic is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swedish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Serbia

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Ristić, Ristič

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ristić

  • Czech surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, Serbia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Ristić, Ristič

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, United States, Poland

    Also written Ristić

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Serbia, United States

    Also written Ristić

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Switzerland

    Also written Ristić

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ristić

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ristic 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 Romanian, RISTÍC s. n. (În sintagma) Gogoașă de ristic = gogoașă bogată în tanin, care se formează pe frunzele și pe ramurile tinere al unor stejari, în urma înțepăturii făcute de o specie de viespe, și care se întrebuințează în medicină sub formă de tinctură, în industria chimică și în industria tăbăcăriei.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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)

1850190019502000Svetomir Ristić, b. 1886Dusan Ristic, b. 1970André Ristic, b. 1972Ivan Ristić, b. 1976Natasa Ristic, b. 1980Mladen Ristic, b. 1982Nevena Ristić, b. 1990Andrej Ristic, b. 1998

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Ristic
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024789#1,552

Reference works 3

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

In which country does Ristic have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Ristic in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ristić.
How common is the name Ristic?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 789 people named Ristic in 2024, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Ristic compared with other names?
In Serbia, Ristic is the 19th most common surname of 45,065 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Ristic” — the 19th most common surname in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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