Shishman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Shishman, Bulgarian king
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Shishman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 46Kas Шишман(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 570Kas Шишман
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 740Kfew recordsas Шишман
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shishman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈830 named Шишман, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ukraine, est., as Шишман
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Шишман in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 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)Shishman, Bulgarian king. 1371.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shishman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Шишман | 27 |
| RU Russia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 566K | — | Шишман | 91 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 744K | — | Шишман | 21 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Шишман | 3 |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Шишман | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Shishman | 7 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)Shishman 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 Albanian, very fat person, fatso
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Shishman come from?
- Shishman, Bulgarian king. 1371. Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- What does the name Shishman mean?
- Recorded meaning: Shishman, Bulgarian king.
- In which country does Shishman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 828 people named Шишман in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shishman?
- Mondonomo estimates about 830 people in Ukraine have Шишман as their first surname, about 1 in 46 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shishmanThe 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, “Shishman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.