Sissi
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2024
/sissi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Sissi is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Sissi is also written Σίσσυ in Greek.
- ATAustria≈1 in 6.7Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 14Kfew records
- FIFinland1 in 18K
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 Sissi 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sissi in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sissy in GR Greece.
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.
How to pronounce Sissi
- Spanish:/sissi/(machine-generated) model-generated
- German:/ˈzɪsi/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Portuguese:/zisi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sissi is read
(measured from records)Sissi is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sissi in Spanish.
- German18%
a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sissi in French.
- English16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sissi in English.
- Portuguese8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sissi in Portuguese.
- Finnish7.8%
guerrilla, partisan (irregular soldier)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sissi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Sissi | 30 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Sissi | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 1 | Sissi | 75 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 1 | Sissi | 16 |
| AT Austria | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 71 | Sissi | 30 |
| GR Greece | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Sissy | 38 |
| FI Finland | 314 | 1 in 18K | 353 | — | 5 |
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 de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)Sissi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sga, you (nominative plural), ye
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, genitive singular of siss
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)- Sissi Duparcb. 1953FRFrench actress
- Sissi Perlingerb. 1963DEGerman actress
- Sissy Christidoub. 1980GRnot in their usual nameGreek television presenter
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Sissi?
- In the etymology graph, Elisabeth is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Sissi mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sissi?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /sissi/; in German /ˈzɪsi/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /zisi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sissi a male or female name?
- Sissi is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and Norway (SSB).
- Which countries have the most people named Sissi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 104 thousand people named Sissi in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sissi. After it come Algeria, Germany, Italy and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sissi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 314 people named Sissi, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sissi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sissiThe 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, “Sissi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.