Syster
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Syster är ett nordiskt namn, identiskt med släktskapsbeteckningen syster (jfr → Bror, → Sisko, → Sune)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2010
/sɪstɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Syster is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in South Africa.
- RERéunion
- ZASouth Africa
- GBUnited Kingdom
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Syster är ett nordiskt namn, identiskt med släktskapsbeteckningen syster (jfr → Bror, → Sisko, → Sune). Det var relativt frekvent under 1800-talet men är ovanligt idag, särskilt som tilltalsnamn.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Syster 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 Swedish, a sister (woman or girl having the same parents)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, sister (female with same parents)
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)- Ian Systerb. 1976ZAathletics competitor (1976-2004)
- Kim SysterSouth African actress, dancer and model
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 103 | #157,234 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Syster?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪstɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Syster mean?
- Recorded meaning: Syster är ett nordiskt namn, identiskt med släktskapsbeteckningen syster (jfr → Bror, → Sisko, → Sune).
- In which country does Syster have the most bearers?
- Syster is most frequently recorded in South Africa.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/systerThe 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, “Syster”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.