Shì
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Shì is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in China. Recorded meaning: From Mandarin 施 (Shī). Doublet of Sy, Siy, See, and Sze.
- CNChina
- HKHong Kong
- MOMacao
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 344 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shi in CN China, HK Hong Kong, TW Taiwan and 1 more.
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)
From Mandarin 施 (Shī). Doublet of Sy, Siy, See, and Sze.
Sources 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shì counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
Shì 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 世, 㔺, 卋, 丗
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)
- Xuanzangb. 602CNnot in their usual name7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar (602–664)
- Shandaob. 613CNnot in their usual nameChinese Buddhist monk
- Fazangb. 643CNnot in their usual nameBuddhist patriarch (643-713)
- Vajrabodhib. 669CNnot in their usual nameIndian esoteric Buddhist monk, translator and teacher in Tang China
- Amoghavajrab. 705UZnot in their usual nameBuddhist monk and translator active in China (705–774)
- Zhaozhou Congshenb. 778not in their usual nameEsteemed chán master of the Tang Dynasty
- Huangbo Xiyunb. 800CNnot in their usual nameChinese Hongzhou school monk
- Hoteib. 850CNnot in their usual namefigure in Buddhist and East Asian religious traditions
- Muqib. 1210CNnot in their usual nameChinese painter
- Shi Yan Mingb. 1964USAmerican martial artist
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shì mean, and where does it come from?
- From Mandarin 施 (Shī). Doublet of Sy, Siy, See, and Sze. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Shì have the most bearers?
- Shì is most frequently recorded in China, where it is most often spelled shi.
What do you want to know about Shì?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C3%ACThe 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, “Shì”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.