Ziskin

surname · Latin script

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

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

Ziskin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 231K
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 331K

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 Ziskin 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.

United States (measured from records)

262 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
149 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 231K (inferred from the name graph)

Israel, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ZiskinLatin(measured from records)
ЗискинCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Зискин in RU Russia, IL Israel.

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

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ziskin 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 Ziskin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2621 in 1.3M262Ziskin149
MA Morocco≈83 est.≈1 in 430K—Ziskin4
RU Russia≈67 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Зискин58
NL Netherlands≈52 est.≈1 in 331K—Ziskin1
GB United Kingdom≈38 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Ziskin17
IL Israel≈37 est.≈1 in 231K—Зискин7
CA Canada≈32 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Ziskin8
NZ New Zealand≈7 est.≈1 in 668K—Ziskin1

262 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. 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zisḳin

  • Hebrew surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan

    Also written זיסקין, Zisḳin

32 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

195019601970Laura Ziskin, b. 1950James W. Ziskin, b. 1960Louis Ziskin, b. 1969
  • Laura Ziskinb. 1950USAmerican film and television producer (1950–2011)
  • James W. Ziskinb. 1960American crime fiction author
  • Louis Ziskinb. 1969USfounder of DropIn, Inc live video platform (born 1969)

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)

FormalDear Ziskin,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Ziskin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010262#73,911
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000248#72,905
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020228#87,624
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname 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 Ziskin?
A machine transcription gives /ziskɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Ziskin have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 262 people named Ziskin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ziskin.
How common is the name Ziskin?
In the United States, the national register counted 262 people named Ziskin in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million 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, “Ziskin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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