Visse

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/vis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Visse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 44K
  • BEBelgium1 in 129K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,600 people, est.

Sources
175 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Visse 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.

Where Visse is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈1,600 est.≈1 in 43K347Visse175
BE Belgium911 in 129K91Visse16
US United States≈66 est.≈1 in 5M—Visse16
NL Netherlands451 in 384K45—2
ES Spain≈35 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Visse1
EE Estonia≈28 est.≈1 in 44K23—1
DK Denmark131 in 451K13——

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the ee-stat-nimed 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Visse is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Viße

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vissé

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Visse is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ver

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, third-person singular past historic of vivere

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, definite natural masculine singular of viss

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of vissen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, broom, shrub in the genus genista

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, definite singular of viss

    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)

1930194019501960René Visse, b. 1937Bernard Visse, b. 1952Dominique Visse, b. 1955

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Visse, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Visse
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991347—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961321—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971304—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981302—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951250—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941195—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931166—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921132—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190195—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200891#16,782
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191183—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)189168—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Visse?
A machine transcription gives /vis/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Visse have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Visse in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled visse.
How common is the name Visse?
In Belgium, the national register counted 91 people named Visse in 2008, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.

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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, “Visse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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