Stasi
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The Ministry for State Security, secret police and intelligence organization of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈstɑsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stasi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 71K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 103K
- ARArgentina1 in 167K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
497 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
The Ministry for State Security, secret police and intelligence organization of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Stasi is read(measured from records)
Stasi is one spelling over 4 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.
- English38%
The Ministry for State Security, secret police and intelligence organization of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Stasi in Spanish.
- Italian19%
forma popular e coloquial, redução de Anastasi
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Stasi in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Stasi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 497 | 1 in 669K | 567 | Stasi | 24 |
| AR Argentina | 273 | 1 in 167K | 273 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 161 | 1 in 1.3M | 161 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 119 | 1 in 71K | 119 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 68 | 1 in 736K | 68 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 41 | 1 in 286K | 41 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 33 | 1 in 103K | 33 | — | — |
497 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Stasi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, state security service
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Indonesian, administration division in a parish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Vācu "Staatssicherheitsdienst" (Valsts drošības dienests) – bijušās Vācijas Demokrātiskās Republikas drošības spēki, Padomju Savienības VDK analogs; StaSi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Bernard Stasib. 1930FRFrench politician (1930-2011)
- Mario Stasib. 1933FRFrench lawyer (1933-2012)
- Maria Elena Stasib. 1947ITItalian politician
- Linda Stasib. 1947USAmerican columnist
- Antonella Stasib. 1966ITItalian architect
- Cataldo Stasib. 1966ITItalian military personnel
- Mario Stasib. 1968FRFrench lawyer (1968-)
- Kid Yugib. 2001ITnot in their usual nameItalian rapper
- Cristina Stasiresearcher
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 567 | #37,043 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 503 | #45,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 497 | #43,438 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 273 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 161 | #43,807 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 119 | #9,652 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 68 | #36,243 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 68 | #35,845 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 41 | #29,977 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 33 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Stasi mean, and where does it come from?
- The Ministry for State Security, secret police and intelligence organization of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Stasi?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstɑsi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stasi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 497 people named Stasi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stasi.
- Where is Stasi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stasi is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 71 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stasi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 497 people named Stasi in 2010, about 1 in 669 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Stasi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stasiThe 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, “Stasi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.